Rich Felker
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as stated in the comment added, the ABI for SME requires libc to be
aware of and support the extension to the register file. this is
necessary to handle lazy saving correctly across setjmp/longjmp, and
on older kernels, in order not to introduce memory corruption bugs
that may be exploitable vulnerabilities when creating new threads.
previously, we did not expose __getauxval, the interface libgcc uses
to determine runtime availability of SME, so it was not usable when
following the intended ABI. since commit
ab4635fba6 has now exposed this
interface, a mitigation is needed to ensure SME is not used
unless/until we have proper support for it.
while SME is the current hwcap feature that needs this treatment,
as-yet-undefined hwcap bits are also masked in case other new cpu
features have similar ABI issues. this could be re-evaluated at some
point in the future.
for now, the masking is only on aarch64. arguably it should be
considered for all archs, but whether it's needed is really a matter
of how ABI policy & stability are handled by the maintainers of the
arch psABI, and aarch64 is the one that's demonstrated a necessity. if
it turns out something like this is needed for more/all archs, making
a generalized framework for it would make sense. for now, it's stuffed
into __set_thread_area the same way atomics detection is stuffed there
for 32-bit arm and sh, as it's a convenient point for "arch-specific
early setup code" without invasive changes.
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