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rseq: Deprecate RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags
authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:46:16 +0000 (15:46 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 1 Aug 2022 13:21:29 +0000 (15:21 +0200)
commitd2d530a53a0f4269c2ddbbf883e730479b3d3526
tree025ffe0425ab8aa28c0ded5bc3ca61a79019f605
parent016c5d1c3310972c4664abbc43019f9b9656a822
rseq: Deprecate RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags

The pretty much unused RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags introduce
complexity in rseq, and are subtly buggy [1]. Solving those issues
requires introducing additional complexity in the rseq implementation
for each supported architecture.

Considering that it complexifies the rseq ABI, I am proposing that we
deprecate those flags. [2]

So far there appears to be consensus from maintainers of user-space
projects impacted by this feature that its removal would be a welcome
simplification. [3]

The deprecation approach proposed here is to issue WARN_ON_ONCE() when
encountering those flags and kill the offending process with sigsegv.
This should allow us to quickly identify whether anyone yells at us for
removing this.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220618182515.95831-1-minhquangbui99@gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/258546133.12151.1655739550814.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87pmj1enjh.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org/
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220622194617.1155957-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
kernel/rseq.c