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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	musl@lists.openwall.com, libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [musl] Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/64/signal: balance return predictor stack in signal trampoline
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:31:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210122183127.GQ23432@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210122181922.pcxyomeg5xcf2umu@work-tp>

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 03:19:22PM -0300, Raoni Fassina Firmino wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 09:44:05AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see how this would break musl;
> > we just inspect the PC in the mcontext, which I don't see any changes
> > to and which should still point to the next instruction of the
> > interrupted context. I don't have a test environment though so I'll
> > have to wait for feedback from ppc users to be sure. Are there any
> > further details on how it's breaking glibc?
> 
> For glibc, backtrace() compares the return-address from each stack frame
> to the value of `__kernel_sigtramp_rt64` to identify the frame with the
> mcontext information, but now the return-address is not the start of the
> routine, but the middle of it, so it fails to catch this special frame.

Is there a reason it's backtracing rather than just looking at the
interrupted context (pointed to by the third argument to the signal
handler)?

Rich

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-22 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200511101952.1463138-1-npiggin@gmail.com>
2021-01-22 11:27 ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-22 14:44   ` Rich Felker
2021-01-22 18:19     ` Raoni Fassina Firmino
2021-01-22 18:31       ` Rich Felker [this message]
2021-01-22 18:50         ` Raoni Fassina Firmino
2021-01-22 18:13   ` Raoni Fassina Firmino

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