[PATCH] [BZ #14579] rtld: limit the self loading check to normal mode

Carlos O'Donell carlos@systemhalted.org
Sun Sep 16 16:55:00 GMT 2012


On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 03:11:43AM +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > Or has the defect simply stopped triggering?
> 
> What is obvious to me is that rtld used to segfault when loading itself in
> normal mode, commit glibc-2.14~10 was made to avoid the segfault, and
> reverting it reintroduces the segfault.

Thanks, that answers my question. As long as the conditional which we
remove doesn't cause the segfault to return in any of the code paths we
enable then I'm happy.

Cheers,
Carlos.



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