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Re: [PATCH] ld.so: Fix dlclose() removing required local scope elementsof NODELETE linkmaps


On 04/13/2012 06:42 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12561
(Waiting for review for around a year now.)

In case a library is opened with RTLD_LOCAL, dlclose()ing that library
will remove the local scope from all subsequently loaded libraries
unconditionally, even though such a library is marked as RTLD_NODELETE.
This causes subsequent lookups within that library to fail if the
library depends on other libraries than those already loaded within
the global scope.

This has been exposed in a real-world case where libproxy opens
a KDE4 plugin with RTLD_LOCAL, the plugin depends on libkde4_core
and libkde4_core is marked as NODELETE due to having a STB_GNU_UNIQ
symbol; the plugin is dlclose()d later but ld.so raises a fatal
error when libkde4_core global destructor is called (it depends
on libqt4, but libqt4 has been in the plugin's local scope only
and is gone now).

Yeah, a quite nasty bug and we need a fix for this. Thanks for looking again into this.


Testcase (by Michael Matz):

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5749

Ok to commit?

Did this pass the testsuite for you?


I just applied the patch and run the testsuite and got a failure on both x86 and x86-64 for elf/tst-dlmodcount:

GCONV_PATH=/build/glibc/x86/iconvdata LC_ALL=C /build/glibc/x86/elf/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path /build/glibc/x86:/build/glibc/x86/math:/build/glibc/x86/elf:/build/glibc/x86/dlfcn:/build/glibc/x86/nss:/build/glibc/x86/nis:/build/glibc/x86/rt:/build/glibc/x86/resolv:/build/glibc/x86/crypt:/build/glibc/x86/nptl /build/glibc/x86/elf/tst-dlmodcount > /build/glibc/x86/elf/tst-dlmodcount.out
dlpi_subs failed to get incremented!
make[2]: *** [/build/glibc/x86/elf/tst-dlmodcount.out] Error 4


cat elf/tst-dlmodcount.out
  size = 64
  dlpi_adds = 5 dlpi_subs = 0
loading `firstobj.so'
  size = 64
  dlpi_adds = 7 dlpi_subs = 0
loading `globalmod1.so'
  size = 64
  dlpi_adds = 8 dlpi_subs = 0
unloading `firstobj.so'
  size = 64
  dlpi_adds = 8 dlpi_subs = 0

Andreas
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