From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/17] vdso: Avoid call to memset() by getrandom
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:02:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240829180241.GJ29862@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e5a36d98-c880-4d33-954a-2a05240ef02f@csgroup.eu>
On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 07:36:38PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>
> Le 28/08/2024 à 19:25, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> >
> >>Not sure about static binaries, though: do those even use the VDSO?
> >
> >With "static binary" people usually mean "a binary not using any DSOs",
> >I think the VDSO is a DSO, also in this respect? As always, -static
> >builds are *way* less problematic (and faster and smaller :-) )
> >
>
> AFAIK on powerpc even static binaries use the vDSO, otherwise signals
> don't work.
How can that work? Non-dynamic binaries do not use ld.so (that is the
definition of a dynamic binary, even). So they cannot link (at runtime)
to any DSO (unless that is done manually?!)
Maybe there is something at a fixed offset in the vDSO, or something
like that? Is this documented somewhere?
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-29 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-22 7:13 [PATCH v2 00/17] Wire up getrandom() vDSO implementation on powerpc Christophe Leroy
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] asm-generic/unaligned.h: Extract common header for vDSO Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 7:20 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-26 7:32 ` Christophe Leroy
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] vdso: Clean header inclusion in getrandom Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 8:07 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-26 8:37 ` Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 8:58 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-26 10:45 ` Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 13:17 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-26 13:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 03/17] vdso: Add __arch_get_k_vdso_rng_data() Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 7:24 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 04/17] vdso: Add missing c-getrandom-y in Makefile Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 7:40 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] vdso: Avoid call to memset() by getrandom Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 8:01 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-27 18:08 ` Eric Biggers
2024-08-27 18:22 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-27 22:53 ` Segher Boessenkool
2024-08-28 11:18 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-28 12:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-08-28 12:26 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-28 12:51 ` Segher Boessenkool
2024-08-28 12:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
2024-08-28 15:40 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-08-28 16:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2024-08-28 17:12 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-08-28 17:25 ` Segher Boessenkool
2024-08-29 17:36 ` Christophe Leroy
2024-08-29 18:02 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2024-08-29 18:50 ` Christophe Leroy
2024-08-30 10:01 ` Michael Ellerman
2024-08-28 12:33 ` Segher Boessenkool
2024-08-28 12:51 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] vdso: Change getrandom's generation to unsigned long Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 7:50 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-26 8:01 ` Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 8:16 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-26 9:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-08-26 9:48 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-26 10:20 ` LEROY Christophe
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] mm: Define VM_DROPPABLE for powerpc/32 Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 9:53 ` kernel test robot
2024-08-26 10:13 ` kernel test robot
2024-08-26 21:34 ` kernel test robot
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] powerpc: Add little endian variants of LWZX_BE and STWX_BE Christophe Leroy
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] powerpc/vdso32: Add crtsavres Christophe Leroy
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] powerpc/vdso: Refactor CFLAGS for CVDSO build Christophe Leroy
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] powerpc/vdso: Wire up getrandom() vDSO implementation Christophe Leroy
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 12/17] selftests: vdso: Fix powerpc64 vdso_config Christophe Leroy
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 13/17] selftests: vdso: Don't hard-code location of vDSO sources Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 7:26 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 14/17] selftests: vdso: Make test_vdso_getrandom look for the right vDSO function Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 7:28 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-26 7:35 ` LEROY Christophe
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 15/17] selftests: vdso: Fix build of test_vdso_chacha Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 7:33 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 16/17] selftests: vdso: Make VDSO function call more generic Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 7:37 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-26 7:48 ` LEROY Christophe
2024-08-22 7:13 ` [PATCH v2 17/17] selftests: vdso: Add support for vdso_test_random for powerpc Christophe Leroy
2024-08-26 7:19 ` [PATCH v2 00/17] Wire up getrandom() vDSO implementation on powerpc Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-26 8:23 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
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