On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 11:25:00AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Handle compiling with -mbig-endian on aarch64, which generates binaries
> with mixed code vs data endianness (little endian code, big endian
> data).
> 
> Else mismatch between code endianness for the generated signatures and
> data endianness for the RSEQ_SIG parameter passed to the rseq
> registration will trigger application segmentation faults when the
> kernel try to abort rseq critical sections.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> CC: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
> CC: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
> CC: Dave Watson <[email protected]>
> CC: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> CC: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
> CC: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]
> CC: "H . Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
> CC: Chris Lameter <[email protected]>
> CC: Russell King <[email protected]>
> CC: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]>
> CC: "Paul E . McKenney" <[email protected]>
> CC: Paul Turner <[email protected]>
> CC: Boqun Feng <[email protected]>
> CC: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
> CC: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
> CC: Ben Maurer <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
> CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> CC: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-arm64.h | 17 +++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-arm64.h 
> b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-arm64.h
> index b41a2a48e965..200dae9e4208 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-arm64.h
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-arm64.h
> @@ -6,7 +6,20 @@
>   * (C) Copyright 2018 - Will Deacon <[email protected]>
>   */
>  
> -#define RSEQ_SIG     0xd428bc00      /* BRK #0x45E0 */
> +/*
> + * aarch64 -mbig-endian generates mixed endianness code vs data:
> + * little-endian code and big-endian data. Ensure the RSEQ_SIG signature
> + * matches code endianness.
> + */
> +#define RSEQ_SIG_CODE        0xd428bc00      /* BRK #0x45E0.  */
> +
> +#ifdef __AARCH64EB__
> +#define RSEQ_SIG_DATA        0x00bc28d4      /* BRK #0x45E0.  */

It would be neater to implement swab32 and use that with RSEQ_SIG_CODE,
but either way:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>

Will

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