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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 12:55:56 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Restrictions on child context after multithreaded fork
On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 09:05:28AM +0200, Pirmin Walthert wrote:
> Dear Rich,
> >I've seen suspicions that the switch to mallocng exposed this, but I'm
> >pretty sure it was:
> >
> >https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=e01b5939b38aea5ecbe41670643199825874b26c
>
> I needed to patch asterisk because of similar issues (you gave me
> some hints on this mailing list after I'd described the issue):
>
> https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28776
>
> However this happened with a combination of musl 1.2.0, which did
> not have the mentioned commit applied, and mallocng (LD_PRELOAD
> method). Asterisk with 1.2.0 and old malloc was running just fine.
Yes, if you were using mallocng out-of-tree it doesn't integrate with
musl's internal locking, and would always perform locks regardless of
whether multithreaded. This is even stronger than the above-cited
change.
Rich
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