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Sean ChristophersonandGreg Kroah-Hartman
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commita001cd248aupstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.