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Re: [PATCH 0/2] nptl: Update struct pthread_unwind_buf
* H. J. Lu:
>> My proposal is still rather hackish, but so is the existing code (the
>
> A pointer to a buffer in user program is passed to libpthread.
> There is a jmp buf in the buffer followed by other fields. Since
> the size of jmp buf is increased in glibc 2.28, we need to know the
> offset of other fields. Otherwise libpthread may write beyond the
> buffer in user program. I don't see how symbol versioning can help
> us here since the INTERNAL libpthread functions don't know the
> layout of __pthread_unwind_buf_t of USER programs.
I suggest *not* to increase the size of the jump buffer.
CET markup will not be correct for static libraries compiled against
2.27 or earlier with a CET-enabled toolchain, so this is the only
completely safe approach.