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rseq/selftests: Use weak symbol reference, not definition, to link with glibc 

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
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Sean Christopherson 2025-08-19 15:29:44 -07:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 6eb350a223
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tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq.c
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@ -40,9 +40,9 @@
* Define weak versions to play nice with binaries that are statically linked
* against a libc that doesn't support registering its own rseq.
*/
__weak ptrdiff_t __rseq_offset;
__weak unsigned int __rseq_size;
__weak unsigned int __rseq_flags;
extern __weak ptrdiff_t __rseq_offset;
extern __weak unsigned int __rseq_size;
extern __weak unsigned int __rseq_flags;
static const ptrdiff_t *libc_rseq_offset_p = &__rseq_offset;
static const unsigned int *libc_rseq_size_p = &__rseq_size;
@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ void rseq_init(void)
* libc not having registered a restartable sequence. Try to find the
* symbols if that's the case.
*/
if (!*libc_rseq_size_p) {
if (!libc_rseq_size_p || !*libc_rseq_size_p) {
libc_rseq_offset_p = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "__rseq_offset");
libc_rseq_size_p = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "__rseq_size");
libc_rseq_flags_p = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "__rseq_flags");