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From: Dominic Chen <d.c.ddcc@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: [musl] Incorrect thread TID caching
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 23:04:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62be4b85-4a42-413e-a83f-866eab4d601a@gmail.com> (raw)

I've been debugging a local port of Chrome using musl, and have noticed 
that musl is caching the thread TID in __pthread_self()->tid, which 
results in incorrect behavior if the application calls the clone() libc 
wrapper or the clone system call, and then calls libc functions which 
use the cached TID value, like raise().

 From a quick skim of other libc implementations, both bionic and glibc 
don't seem to cache TID, and directly call the gettid system call inside 
raise(). I also recall that glibc removed PID caching a few years ago 
due to similar issues there as well. So, it seems that musl should 
either not cache the TID, or at least update the cached value after 
returning from the system call inside the clone() wrapper (with special 
handling for CLONE_VM/CLONE_VFORK)?

Please CC me on replies.

Thanks,

Dominic



             reply	other threads:[~2021-02-03  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-03  4:04 Dominic Chen [this message]
2021-02-03  7:16 ` Florian Weimer
2021-02-03 19:21 ` Rich Felker
2021-02-03 20:21   ` Dominic Chen
2021-02-03 21:01     ` Rich Felker
2021-02-03 22:30       ` Dominic Chen
2021-02-03 22:55         ` Rich Felker
2021-02-15 16:56           ` Rich Felker
2021-02-17 19:49             ` Dominic Chen
2021-02-17 20:11               ` Rich Felker
2021-02-17 21:07                 ` Rich Felker
2021-03-12 21:14                   ` Dominic Chen
2021-02-04  3:28     ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-02-04  4:22       ` Dominic Chen
2021-02-04 16:15         ` Rich Felker

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