Similar to system/longjmp/vfork (bug 20188, bug 19861, and others), programs can fail to load due to the relocation dependency of the IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and the other clock_* functions in librt. This is particularly visible if a program uses clock_gettime from libc (from an object which does not link against librt), and also has dynamic objects which are linked against librt. In this case, the librt definition of clock_gettime interposes the libc definition, and its IFUNC resolver may run before librt is relocated (because not all clock_gettime users have a DT_NEEDED dependency on librt).
Review thread: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-08/msg00732.html https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-09/msg00039.html
The master branch has been updated by Florian Weimer <fw@sourceware.org>: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=7b5af2d8f2a2b858319a792678b15a0db08764c7 commit 7b5af2d8f2a2b858319a792678b15a0db08764c7 Author: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> Date: Wed Sep 4 08:18:57 2019 +0200 Finish move of clock_* functions to libc. [BZ #24959] In glibc 2.17, the functions clock_getcpuclockid, clock_getres, clock_gettime, clock_nanosleep, and clock_settime were moved from librt.so to libc.so, leaving compatibility stubs behind. Now that the dynamic linker no longer insists on finding versioned symbols in the same library that originally defined them, we do not need the stubs anymore, and this means we don't need GLIBC_PRIVATE __-prefix aliases for most of the functions anymore either. (clock_gettime still needs one.) For ports added before 2.17, libc.so needs to provide two symbol versions for each, the default at GLIBC_2.17 plus a compat version matching what librt had. While I'm at it, move the clock_*.c files and their tests from rt/ to time/.
Fixed in glibc 2.31.
The master branch has been updated by Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@sourceware.org>: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=b2b3b7598ae51c714b5fd0d0406d435e66f3624b commit b2b3b7598ae51c714b5fd0d0406d435e66f3624b Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Date: Wed Sep 25 22:10:00 2019 +0000 Set the expects flags to clock_nanosleep It moves the missing CFLAGS from rt/Makefile to time/Makefile missing from 7b5af2d8f2a2b (Finish move of clock_* functions to libc. [BZ #24959]). Checked on powerpc64le-linux-gnu. * rt/Makefile (CFLAGS-clock_nanosleep.c): Move to ... * time/Makefile (CFLAGS-clock_nanosleep.c): ... here.