linux-kernel - [patch V2 05/37] rseq: Simplify registration

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Message-ID: <20250823161653.580926530@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 18:39:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
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Subject: [patch V2 05/37] rseq: Simplify registration

There is no point to read the critical section element in the newly
registered user space RSEQ struct first in order to clear it.

Just clear it and be done with it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/rseq.c |   10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/rseq.c
+++ b/kernel/rseq.c
@@ -492,11 +492,9 @@ void rseq_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs)
 /*
  * sys_rseq - setup restartable sequences for caller thread.
  */
-SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rseq, struct rseq __user *, rseq, u32, rseq_len,
-		int, flags, u32, sig)
+SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rseq, struct rseq __user *, rseq, u32, rseq_len, int, flags, u32, sig)
 {
 	int ret;
-	u64 rseq_cs;

 	if (flags & RSEQ_FLAG_UNREGISTER) {
 		if (flags & ~RSEQ_FLAG_UNREGISTER)
@@ -557,11 +555,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rseq, struct rseq __user
 	 * avoid a potential segfault on return to user-space. The proper thing
 	 * to do would have been to fail the registration but this would break
 	 * older libcs that reuse the rseq area for new threads without
-	 * clearing the fields.
+	 * clearing the fields. Don't bother reading it, just reset it.
 	 */
-	if (rseq_get_rseq_cs_ptr_val(rseq, &rseq_cs))
-	        return -EFAULT;
-	if (rseq_cs && clear_rseq_cs(rseq))
+	if (put_user_masked_u64(0UL, &rseq->rseq_cs))
 		return -EFAULT;

 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ