[LLVMbugs] [Bug 21081] New: Windows implementation of segmented stacks uses invalid TCB slot

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            Bug ID: 21081
           Summary: Windows implementation of segmented stacks uses
                    invalid TCB slot
           Product: libraries
           Version: trunk
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P
         Component: Backend: X86
          Assignee: unassignedbugs at nondot.org
          Reporter: andersrb at gmail.com
                CC: llvmbugs at cs.uiuc.edu
    Classification: Unclassified

The implementation of segmented stacks for i686 and x86_64 Windows uses the
'pvArbitrary' (aka 'ArbitraryUserPointer') field of the TCB to store the stack
limit (`$fs:0x14` on win32 or `$gs:0x28` on win64).

As indicated by Raymond Chen[1] this slot is, contrary to some information, not
free for use by applications, and will cause various mysterious bugs.

This has been a major source of pain in Rust[2][3][4], which at this point only
uses segmented stacks for stack overflow protection, and is presently switching
to stack probes instead.

I'm not aware of other candidate TCB slots to use for this purpose, so
segmented stacks on Windows may not be viable with the current technique.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9261455/tib-custom-storage
[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13259
[3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13073
[4]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/10315

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