We use guard pages that cause the process to abort to protect against
undefined behavior in the event of stack overflow. We have a handler
that catches segfaults, prints out an error message if the segfault was
due to a stack overflow, then unregisters itself and returns to allow
the signal to be re-raised and kill the process.
This caused some confusion, as it was unexpected that safe code would be
able to cause a segfault, while it's easy to overflow the stack in safe
code. To avoid this confusion, when we detect a segfault in the guard
page, abort instead of the previous behavior of re-raising the SIGSEGV.
To test this, we need to adapt the tests for segfault to actually check
the exit status. Doing so revealed that the existing test for segfault
behavior was actually invalid; LLVM optimizes the explicit null pointer
reference down to an illegal instruction, so the program aborts with
SIGILL instead of SIGSEGV and the test didn't actually trigger the
signal handler at all. Use a C helper function to get a null pointer
that LLVM can't optimize away, so we get our segfault instead.
This is a [breaking-change] if anyone is relying on the exact signal
raised to kill a process on stack overflow.
Closes#31273
This commit removes all morestack support from the compiler which entails:
* Segmented stacks are no longer emitted in codegen.
* We no longer build or distribute libmorestack.a
* The `stack_exhausted` lang item is no longer required
The only current use of the segmented stack support in LLVM is to detect stack
overflow. This is no longer really required, however, because we already have
guard pages for all threads and registered signal handlers watching for a
segfault on those pages (to print out a stack overflow message). Additionally,
major platforms (aka Windows) already don't use morestack.
This means that Rust is by default less likely to catch stack overflows because
if a function takes up more than one page of stack space it won't hit the guard
page. This is what the purpose of morestack was (to catch this case), but it's
better served with stack probes which have more cross platform support and no
runtime support necessary. Until LLVM supports this for all platform it looks
like morestack isn't really buying us much.
cc #16012 (still need stack probes)
Closes#26458 (a drive-by fix to help diagnostics on stack overflow)
