[PATCH] NEWS: Add the extensible rseq ABI to new features

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Jan 15 09:19:29 GMT 2025


* Michael Jeanson:

> Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
> ---
>  NEWS | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 00c569fe85..a60e2a3945 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ Major new features:
>    to a mising GNU_STACK ELF header or explicit explicitly because of the
>    executable bit in GNU_STACK.  The default is to allow executable stacks.
>  
> +* Support for the extensible rseq ABI introduced in the Linux kernel version
> +  6.3 has been added. The size and alignment of the rseq area is now
> +  determined by auxiliary vector entries when provided by the running kernel.
> +  While there are no user visible changes yet, this will allow accessing rseq
> +  features past the original 32 bytes ABI once they are introduced in future
> +  Linux kernels.

I think the user-visibile change is that __rseq_size can now be 28?
Before that it was stuck at 20.

Thanks,
Florian



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