linux/tools/testing
Sean Christopherson b167bfa432 rseq/selftests: Use weak symbol reference, not definition, to link with glibc
commit a001cd248a upstream.

Add "extern" to the glibc-defined weak rseq symbols to convert the rseq
selftest's usage from weak symbol definitions to weak symbol _references_.
Effectively re-defining the glibc symbols wreaks havoc when building with
-fno-common, e.g. generates segfaults when running multi-threaded programs,
as dynamically linked applications end up with multiple versions of the
symbols.

Building with -fcommon, which until recently has the been the default for
GCC and clang, papers over the bug by allowing the linker to resolve the
weak/tentative definition to glibc's "real" definition.

Note, the symbol itself (or rather its address), not the value of the
symbol, is set to 0/NULL for unresolved weak symbol references, as the
symbol doesn't exist and thus can't have a value.  Check for a NULL rseq
size pointer to handle the scenario where the test is statically linked
against a libc that doesn't support rseq in any capacity.

Fixes: 3bcbc20942 ("selftests/rseq: Play nice with binaries statically linked against glibc 2.35+")
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87frdoybk4.ffs@tglx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-10-19 16:21:47 +02:00
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fault-injection docs: fault-injection: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:07 -06:00
ktest ktest.pl: Prevent recursion of default variable options 2025-08-28 16:24:20 +02:00
kunit kunit: tool: Import missing importlib.abc 2022-02-23 12:03:04 +01:00
nvdimm nvdimm: ndtest: Return -ENOMEM if devm_kcalloc() fails in ndtest_probe() 2025-10-19 16:21:38 +02:00
radix-tree radix tree test suite: fix incorrect allocation size for pthreads 2023-08-16 18:21:58 +02:00
scatterlist Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-09-03 10:08:28 -07:00
selftests rseq/selftests: Use weak symbol reference, not definition, to link with glibc 2025-10-19 16:21:47 +02:00
vsock vsock_diag_test: remove free_sock_stat() call in test_no_sockets 2021-10-15 17:21:34 -07:00