On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 05:53:30PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 11:08:19AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:

quoted

On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 09:13:13AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:

quoted

With the current implementation, __cvdso_getrandom_data() calls
memset(), which is unexpected in the VDSO.

Rewrite opaque data initialisation to avoid memset().

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
---
 lib/vdso/getrandom.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/vdso/getrandom.c b/lib/vdso/getrandom.c
index cab153c5f9be..4a56f45141b4 100644
--- a/lib/vdso/getrandom.c
+++ b/lib/vdso/getrandom.c

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/minmax.h>
+#include <linux/array_size.h>
 #include <vdso/datapage.h>
 #include <vdso/getrandom.h>
 #include <vdso/unaligned.h>

@@ -74,11 +75,15 @@ __cvdso_getrandom_data(const struct vdso_rng_data *rng_info, void *buffer, size_
 	u32 counter[2] = { 0 };
 
 	if (unlikely(opaque_len == ~0UL && !buffer && !len && !flags)) {
-		*(struct vgetrandom_opaque_params *)opaque_state = (struct vgetrandom_opaque_params) {
-			.size_of_opaque_state = sizeof(*state),
-			.mmap_prot = PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-			.mmap_flags = MAP_DROPPABLE | MAP_ANONYMOUS
-		};
+		struct vgetrandom_opaque_params *params = opaque_state;
+		int i;
+
+		params->size_of_opaque_state = sizeof(*state);
+		params->mmap_prot = PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE;
+		params->mmap_flags = MAP_DROPPABLE | MAP_ANONYMOUS;
+		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(params->reserved); i++)
+			params->reserved[i] = 0;
+
 		return 0;
 	}

Is there a compiler flag that could be used to disable the generation of calls
to memset?

-fno-tree-loop-distribute-patterns .  But, as always, read up on it, see
what it actually does (and how it avoids your problem, and mostly: learn
what the actual problem *was*!)

This might help with various loops, but it doesn't help with the matter
that this patch fixes, which is struct initialization. I just tried it
with the arm64 patch to no avail.