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From: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH backport for 4.18] rseq/selftests: fix parametrized test with -fpie
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 13:18:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dccfbfa9-8844-7763-a85d-b30c99cb270b@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181004190430.812-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

On 10/04/2018 01:04 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> commit ce01a1575f45bf319e374592656441021a7f5823 upstream.
> 
> On x86-64, the parametrized selftest code for rseq crashes with a
> segmentation fault when compiled with -fpie. This happens when the
> param_test binary is loaded at an address beyond 32-bit on x86-64.
> 
> The issue is caused by use of a 32-bit register to hold the address
> of the loop counter variable.
> 
> Fix this by using a 64-bit register to calculate the address of the
> loop counter variables as an offset from rip.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
> Acked-by: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks for q quick back-port.

Acked-by:  Shuah Khan (Samsung OSG) <shuah@kernel.org>

thanks,
-- Shuah

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-04 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-04 19:04 Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-10-04 19:18 ` Shuah Khan [this message]
2018-10-04 19:29 ` Greg KH

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