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From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: value of thread-specific data immediately after initialization
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:39:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1536871178.1074978.1507360824.56778F86@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)

POSIX says that after the creation of a thread-specific key, its associated value should be NULL in all threads. musl may not uphold this requirement if a particular key is deleted and later resued.

Here's an example of the bug:

#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
	pthread_key_t k;
	pthread_key_create(&k, NULL);
	printf("%p\n", pthread_getspecific(k));
	pthread_setspecific(k, &k);
	pthread_key_delete(k);
	pthread_key_create(&k, NULL);
	printf("%p\n", pthread_getspecific(k));
	pthread_key_delete(k);
	return 0;
}

Per POSIX, I would expect this testcase to output two NULLs. However, musl prints the address of the old data even after the second initialization:

$ musl-gcc -o test test.c
$ ./test 
0
0x7fff2ba3d004


             reply	other threads:[~2018-09-13 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-13 20:39 Benjamin Peterson [this message]
2018-09-17 20:54 ` Rich Felker
2018-09-18  3:18   ` Rich Felker

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