TLS_INIT_TP in sysdeps/i386/nptl/tls.h uses some hand written asm to
generate a set_thread_area that might result in exchanging ebx and esp
around the syscall causing introspection tools like valgrind to loose
track of the user stack. Just use INTERNAL_SYSCALL which makes sure
esp isn't changed arbitrarily.
Before the patch the code would generate:
mov $0xf3,%eax
movl $0xfffff,0x8(%esp)
movl $0x51,0xc(%esp)
xchg %esp,%ebx
int $0x80
xchg %esp,%ebx
Using INTERNAL_SYSCALL instead will generate:
movl $0xfffff,0x8(%esp)
movl $0x51,0xc(%esp)
xchg %ecx,%ebx
mov $0xf3,%eax
int $0x80
xchg %ecx,%ebx
Thanks to Florian Weimer for analysing why the original code generated
the bogus esp usage:
_segdescr.desc happens to be at the top of the stack, so its address
is in %esp. The asm statement says that %3 is an input, so its value
will not change, and GCC can use %esp as the input register for the
expression &_segdescr.desc. But the constraints do not fully describe
the asm statement because the %3 register is actually modified, albeit
only temporarily.
[BZ #17319]
* sysdeps/i386/nptl/tls.h (TLS_INIT_TP): Use INTERNAL_SYSCALL
to call set_thread_area instead of hand written asm.
(__NR_set_thread_area): Removed define.
(TLS_FLAG_WRITABLE): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SET_THREAD_AREA): Remove check.
(TLS_EBX_ARG): Remove define.
(TLS_LOAD_EBX): Likewise.
This patch makes files using __ASSUME_* macros include
<kernel-features.h> explicitly, rather than relying on some other
header (such as tls.h, lowlevellock.h or pthreadP.h) to include it
implicitly. (I omitted cases where I've already posted or am testing
the patch that stops the file from needing __ASSUME_* at all.) This
accords with the general principle of making source files include the
headers for anything they use, and also helps make it safe to remove
<kernel-features.h> includes from any file that doesn't use
__ASSUME_* (some of those may be stray includes left behind after
increasing the minimum kernel version, others may never have been
needed or may have become obsolete after some other change).
Tested x86_64 that the disassembly of installed shared libraries is
unchanged by this patch.
* nptl/pthread_cond_wait.c: Include <kernel-features.h>.
* nptl/pthread_rwlock_timedrdlock.c: Likewise.
* nptl/pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock.c: Likewise.
* nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/lowlevelrobustlock.c: Likewise.
* nscd/nscd.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/i386/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/sh/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
* sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
Martin Galvan