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Commit 2a1f40ad authored by Mathieu Desnoyers's avatar Mathieu Desnoyers Committed by Shuah Khan
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rseq/selftests: Clarify rseq_prepare_unload() helper requirements



The rseq.h UAPI now documents that the rseq_cs field must be cleared
before reclaiming memory that contains the targeted struct rseq_cs, but
also that the rseq_cs field must be cleared before reclaiming memory of
the code pointed to by the rseq_cs start_ip and post_commit_offset
fields.

While we can expect that use of dlclose(3) will typically unmap
both struct rseq_cs and its associated code at once, nothing would
theoretically prevent a JIT from reclaiming the code without
reclaiming the struct rseq_cs, which would erroneously allow the
kernel to consider new code which is not a rseq critical section
as a rseq critical section following a code reclaim.

Suggested-by: default avatarFlorian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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