[PATCH COMMITTED] stdlib: resolve a double lock init issue after fork [BZ #32994]

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Jul 31 17:16:39 GMT 2025


From: Davide Cavalca <davide@cavalca.name>

The __abort_fork_reset_child (introduced in
d40ac01cbbc66e6d9dbd8e3485605c63b2178251) call resets the lock after the
fork. This causes a DRD regression in valgrind
(https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503668), as it's effectively a
double initialization, despite it being actually ok in this case. As
suggested in https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32994#c2
we replace it here with a memcpy of another initialized lock instead,
which makes valgrind happy.

Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>

---
 stdlib/abort.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/stdlib/abort.c b/stdlib/abort.c
index caa9e6dc04..904244a2fb 100644
--- a/stdlib/abort.c
+++ b/stdlib/abort.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <internal-signals.h>
 #include <libc-lock.h>
 #include <pthreadP.h>
+#include <string.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
 /* Try to get a machine dependent instruction which will make the
@@ -42,7 +43,10 @@ __libc_rwlock_define_initialized (static, lock);
 void
 __abort_fork_reset_child (void)
 {
-  __libc_rwlock_init (lock);
+  /* Reinitialize lock without calling pthread_rwlock_init, to
+     avoid a valgrind DRD false positive.  */
+  __libc_rwlock_define_initialized (, reset_lock);
+  memcpy (&lock, &reset_lock, sizeof (lock));
 }
 
 void

base-commit: 258126bc0b77d7f9ae7d0b2737ec66e186c1e0ef



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