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authorSzabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>2020-06-24 07:47:15 +0100
committerSzabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>2020-06-25 14:19:16 +0100
commit087942251f26d5fd5802b8d14e47d460263a0c4d (patch)
tree58df96511a0b52696ba666628506ba37f913abac
parentf6b955e8ba4f0bcc7b9dafa64406d3b40edfa107 (diff)
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nptl: Don't madvise user provided stack
User provided stack should not be released nor madvised at
thread exit because it's owned by the user.

If the memory is shared or file based then MADV_DONTNEED
can have unwanted effects. With memory tagging on aarch64
linux the tags are dropped and thus it may invalidate
pointers.

Tested on aarch64-linux-gnu with MTE, it fixes

FAIL: nptl/tst-stack3
FAIL: nptl/tst-stack3-mem
-rw-r--r--nptl/pthread_create.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/nptl/pthread_create.c b/nptl/pthread_create.c
index 35a9927cf2..6d6ab88960 100644
--- a/nptl/pthread_create.c
+++ b/nptl/pthread_create.c
@@ -549,8 +549,9 @@ START_THREAD_DEFN
     }
 #endif
 
-  advise_stack_range (pd->stackblock, pd->stackblock_size, (uintptr_t) pd,
-		      pd->guardsize);
+  if (!pd->user_stack)
+    advise_stack_range (pd->stackblock, pd->stackblock_size, (uintptr_t) pd,
+			pd->guardsize);
 
   if (__glibc_unlikely (pd->cancelhandling & SETXID_BITMASK))
     {