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authorMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>2014-08-27 17:07:58 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2014-08-28 09:53:08 +0200
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i386 TLS_INIT_TP might produce bogus asm changing stack pointer [BZ #17319]
TLS_INIT_TP in sysdeps/i386/nptl/tls.h uses some hand written asm to
generate a set_thread_area that might result in exchanging ebx and esp
around the syscall causing introspection tools like valgrind to loose
track of the user stack. Just use INTERNAL_SYSCALL which makes sure
esp isn't changed arbitrarily.

Before the patch the code would generate:

mov    $0xf3,%eax
movl   $0xfffff,0x8(%esp)
movl   $0x51,0xc(%esp)
xchg   %esp,%ebx
int    $0x80
xchg   %esp,%ebx

Using INTERNAL_SYSCALL instead will generate:

movl   $0xfffff,0x8(%esp)
movl   $0x51,0xc(%esp)
xchg   %ecx,%ebx
mov    $0xf3,%eax
int    $0x80
xchg   %ecx,%ebx

Thanks to Florian Weimer for analysing why the original code generated
the bogus esp usage:

  _segdescr.desc happens to be at the top of the stack, so its address
  is in %esp.  The asm statement says that %3 is an input, so its value
  will not change, and GCC can use %esp as the input register for the
  expression &_segdescr.desc.  But the constraints do not fully describe
  the asm statement because the %3 register is actually modified, albeit
  only temporarily.

	[BZ #17319]
	* sysdeps/i386/nptl/tls.h (TLS_INIT_TP): Use INTERNAL_SYSCALL
	to call set_thread_area instead of hand written asm.
	(__NR_set_thread_area): Removed define.
	(TLS_FLAG_WRITABLE): Likewise.
	(__ASSUME_SET_THREAD_AREA): Remove check.
	(TLS_EBX_ARG): Remove define.
	(TLS_LOAD_EBX): Likewise.
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