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

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 11:46:27AM -0800, David Matlack wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> I started seeing SIGSEGVs in Google's remote test executor when
> running on hosts at v6.19-rc6. Bisecting led me to this commit:
> 
>   39a167560a61 ("rseq: Optimize event setting")
> 
> I discovered this issue while running VFIO selftests against v6.19-rc6,
> but realized the issue has nothing to do with the selftests themselves.
> Even running "sleep" as the test is enough to trigger this issue in the
> executor.
> 
> I know that Google uses rseq in its userspace software stack, so I
> assume this is some bad interaction between that implementation and
> commit 39a167560a61.
> 
> Unfortunately, the remote test executor that is receiving the SIGSEGV is
> not open source so I don't have a repro I can share. But I can easily
> reproduce the issue with my setup so I'd be happy to help with testing
> any fixes or debug patches.
> 
> I've attached the .config that I used when reproducing this issue. The
> host I am using is an Intel server with EMR CPUs in case that matters.

Is this using tcmalloc? If so, that is somewhat expected because
tcmalloc is known to violate upstream rseq ABI. IIRC you should get a
nice splat if you enable rseq debug mode (echo 1 > /debug/rseq/debug).

Perhaps this is the nudge Google needs to go fix this.