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Re: [PATCH COMMITTED] Do not require memset elimination in explicit_bzero test


On 01/16/2017 04:28 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 3:24 AM, Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
On 01/10/2017 09:22 AM, Stefan Liebler wrote:

In setup_explicit_clear, the buffer is filled with the test_pattern.
On s390x the memcpy in prepare_test_buffer is done by loading
r4 / r5 with the test_pattern and using store multiple instruction
to store r4 / r5 to buf.
If explicit_bzero is resolved in setup_explicit_clear, r4 / r5 is
stored to stack by _dl_runtime_resolve and the call to memmem in
count_test_patterns finds a hit of the test_pattern on the stack.

The attached patch resolves all symbols at program startup by linking
with -z now.  This omits the call of _dl_runtime_resolve within
setup_explicit_clear and the test passes.

If this is okay, I'll commit this patch and clear this bug in the
release blockers list in the release-wiki.

This seems like a reasonable workaround to me.  Please commit.

(Guess we better add "spill slots for callee-save registers, including
registers saved only by dynamic linker stubs" to the list of things to
worry about when adding explicit_bzero to the compiler...)

zw

Thanks.
Committed, closed bug and cleared entry in the release blockers list in the release-wiki.


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