Re: SIGSEGVs after 39a167560a61 ("rseq: Optimize event setting")

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>]

On 2026-01-26 17:27, David Matlack wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 1:51 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> wrote:
[...]
>>> Perhaps this is the nudge Google needs to go fix this.
>>
>> The real question is whether the segfault is triggered from the rseq
>> sanity checks or if the application segfaults becauses it relies on
>> something something which is not guaranteed by the ABI. As this is
>> secret sauce, I can't tell.
> 
> I tried enabling /debug/rseq/debug but many of the daemons on my host
> started crash-looping so much that I wasn't able to even run my test.
> 
> Next I tried disabling CONFIG_RSEQ and as expected the issue went
> away. I will use that for now to unblock my VFIO testing.
> 
> I have reported the tcmalloc regression internally within Google to
> figure out what next step they want to take.

Note that I've proposed to help out the tcmalloc people a few
times in the past years to fix this, but I've been told that
it was not a priority on their end, and that they would not be
able to even test whatever I would come up with.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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