fix audit testcase with IE TLS disabled

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Thu Sep 22 21:17:00 GMT 2005


On Sep 22, 2005, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:

>> As explained in the comment below, if we relocate ldso before setting
>> up TLS, the calloc call at the end of the self relocation will either
>> use uninitialized TLS (if libc uses IE) or crash because __tls_get_addr
>> returns NULL.

> Can you add a test case that demonstrates the failure?

elf/tst-audit1 will demonstrate the failure, but only if you build
libc without IE.  I don't know how to demonstrate it otherwise.

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