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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] Re: [PATCH v9 0/13] implement dlmem() function (fwd)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 08:20:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230405122044.GG4163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874jpule77.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>

On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 02:13:16PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Rich Felker:
> 
> > Well this is disturbing. We probably need to fix gcc here (and a lot
> > of code in the wild may be broken) because musl has no such locking
> > where it doesn't belong.
> 
> We have a helper function in glibc (_dl_find_object) that replaces all
> the previous object traversal logic and caching in libgcc, so it's no
> longer an issue with current gcc and glibc.

Does gcc automatically detect and use this if available? What gcc
versions does that cover? We could certainly add it, but I suspect
coverage will be incomplete... :/

> Unfortunately that means
> that the generic dl_iterate_phdr code will be fixed by adding its own
> locking.

Not sure why that's unfortunate; it's what it should have been doing
all along.

Rich

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-05 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-05 11:54 Rich Felker
2023-04-05 12:13 ` Florian Weimer
2023-04-05 12:20   ` Rich Felker [this message]
2023-04-05 12:25     ` Florian Weimer

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