linux/arch/arc
Vineet Gupta c58a584f05 ARC: clone syscall to setp r25 as thread pointer
Per ARC TLS ABI, r25 is designated TP (thread pointer register).
However so far kernel didn't do any special treatment, like setting up
usermode r25, even for CLONE_SETTLS. We instead relied on libc runtime
to do this, in say clone libc wrapper [1]. This was deliberate to keep
kernel ABI agnostic (userspace could potentially change TP, specially
for different ARC ISA say ARCompact vs. ARCv2 with different spare
registers etc)

However userspace setting up r25, after clone syscall opens a race, if
child is not scheduled and gets a signal instead. It starts off in
userspace not in clone but in a signal handler and anything TP sepcific
there such as pthread_self() fails which showed up with uClibc
testsuite nptl/tst-kill6 [2]

Fix this by having kernel populate r25 to TP value. So this locks in
ABI, but it was not going to change anyways, and fwiw is same for both
ARCompact (arc700 core) and ARCvs (HS3x cores)

[1] https://cgit.uclibc-ng.org/cgi/cgit/uclibc-ng.git/tree/libc/sysdeps/linux/arc/clone.S
[2] https://github.com/wbx-github/uclibc-ng-test/blob/master/test/nptl/tst-kill6.c

Fixes: ARC STAR 9001378481
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Nikita Sobolev <sobolev@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2018-10-05 14:33:29 -07:00
..
boot ARC: dma [IOC]: mark DMA devices connected as dma-coherent 2018-08-31 12:47:26 -07:00
configs ARC: [plat-axs*]: Enable SWAP 2018-08-27 09:00:36 -07:00
include ARC: dma [IOC] Enable per device io coherency 2018-09-04 13:21:37 -07:00
kernel ARC: clone syscall to setp r25 as thread pointer 2018-10-05 14:33:29 -07:00
lib
mm ARC: don't check for HIGHMEM pages in arch_dma_alloc 2018-09-04 13:21:38 -07:00
oprofile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
plat-axs10x ARC: [plat-axs103] refactor the quad core DT quirk code 2017-12-20 12:41:45 -08:00
plat-eznps arc: [plat-eznps] fix printk warning in arc/plat-eznps/mtm.c 2018-07-30 11:48:49 -07:00
plat-hsdk ARCv2: [plat-hsdk]: Save accl reg pair by default 2018-07-19 10:36:45 -07:00
plat-sim ARC: [plat-sim] Include this platform unconditionally 2017-08-04 13:49:47 +05:30
plat-tb10x
Kbuild
Kconfig ARC: fix spelling mistake "entires" -> "entries" 2018-09-14 10:32:49 -07:00
Kconfig.debug Kconfig: consolidate the "Kernel hacking" menu 2018-08-02 08:06:48 +09:00
Makefile ARC: build: Don't set CROSS_COMPILE in arch's Makefile 2018-09-18 13:24:34 -07:00