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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 21:36:16 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: MT fork and key_lock in pthread_key_create.c
On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 02:21:51PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 09:37:50AM +0300, Alexey Izbyshev wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that fork() doesn't take key_lock that is used to protect
> > the global table of thread-specific keys. I couldn't find mentions
> > of this lock in the MT fork discussion in the mailing list archive.
> > Was this lock overlooked?
>
> I think what happened was that we made the main list of locks to
> review and take care of via grep for LOCK, and then manually added
> known instances of locks using other locking primitives. This one must
> have been missed.
>
> Having special-case lock types like this is kinda a pain, but as long
> as there aren't too many I guess it's not a big deal.
Proposed patch attached.
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