Re: [PR18457] Don't require rtld lock to compute DTV addr for static TLS

[Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 06:42:28PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> I guess it depends on what is meant by "IE variable".
> 
> I meant it as a TLS variable defined as part of the initial module set,
> i.e., the main executable and the transitive closure of its
> dependencies.
> 
> Now, if you understood it as a variable declared with the initial-exec
> tls_model attribute, I apologize for the confusion.

OK, that's what I thought.  And I also understand now what your fix
attempts to do and I agree that is a better and more general approach.

> The case to worry about is a static executable, that for whatever reason
> doesn't get these variables linked in, but that dlopens some library
> that depends on libc.so, which then brings these variables into the
> running image.  If libc.so had these variables as IE, this dlopen could
> fail.

This seems to make a case for not having any variables in libc.so as
IE, yet a number of them already are.

Siddhesh

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