glibc 2.22 --- Stil frozen. Machine maintainers start testing.

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Tue Jul 28 11:31:00 GMT 2015


On 28 Jul 2015 11:47, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On 22/07/15 16:09, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> > BZ 17918 dynamic-linker race: pthread_create can access
> > GL(dl_tls_max_dtv_idx) and GL(dl_tls_generation) without
> > holding the rtld lock.
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17918
> > i don't know about any fix for this.
> 
> this is the cause of nptl/tst-stack4 failure, it affects all archs,
> it happens about once out of 100 runs here on aarch64.
> 
> Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-tls.c: 493: _dl_allocate_tls_init: 
> Assertion `listp->slotinfo[cnt].gen <= _rtld_local._dl_tls_generation' 
> failed!

is this a regression ?  if not, has it increased in frequency ?  if not,
and there isn't a clear fix, i'm not sure it qualifies as a blocker.
-mike
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