fix missing synchronization in calls from dynamic linker to global ctors

this change is needed to correctly handle the case where a constructor
creates a new thread which calls dlopen. previously, the lock was not
held in this case. the reason for the complex logic to avoid locking
whenever possible is that, since the mutex is recursive, it will need
to inspect the thread pointer to get the current thread's tid, and
this requires initializing the thread pointer. we do not want
non-multi-threaded programs to attempt to access the thread pointer
unnecessarily; doing so could make them crash on ancient kernels that
don't support threads but which may otherwise be capable of running
the program.

diff --git a/src/ldso/dynlink.c b/src/ldso/dynlink.c
index d19747369331ba6b0bbf1bc597cb9930e75611e1..ac4b669f178bdb94d5d674e1a6fbea196c3b0c19 100644 (file)
--- a/src/ldso/dynlink.c
+++ b/src/ldso/dynlink.c
@@ -692,6 +692,10 @@ static void do_init_fini(struct dso *p)
                }
                if (dyn[0] & (1<<DT_INIT))
                        ((void (*)(void))(p->base + dyn[DT_INIT]))();
+               if (!need_locking && libc.threads_minus_1) {
+                       need_locking = 1;
+                       pthread_mutex_lock(&init_fini_lock);
+               }
        }
        if (need_locking) pthread_mutex_unlock(&init_fini_lock);
 }