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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2009-12-15 12:32:27 -0800
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2009-12-15 12:32:27 -0800
commit2af6396817fb9df98e63de75dd59fd999ee9f1d0 (patch)
treed66827c66d770f1f3d697dbb027b59064e6ab0e0 /elf
parent2510d01ddba195f8cfaa3c2349f75e0612719d82 (diff)
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Avoid ELF lookup race.
On some architectures the update of the l_used field in the lookup
functions races with setting the other bits in the bitfield.  Simply
avoid this and optimize use of l_used in general.
Diffstat (limited to 'elf')
-rw-r--r--elf/dl-lookup.c7
-rw-r--r--elf/dl-object.c8
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/elf/dl-lookup.c b/elf/dl-lookup.c
index c1a1366d6f..763ec16fa4 100644
--- a/elf/dl-lookup.c
+++ b/elf/dl-lookup.c
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ _dl_lookup_symbol_x (const char *undef_name, struct link_map *undef_map,
   if (__builtin_expect (protected != 0, 0))
     {
       /* It is very tricky.  We need to figure out what value to
-         return for the protected symbol.  */
+	 return for the protected symbol.  */
       if (type_class == ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_PLT)
 	{
 	  if (current_value.s != NULL && current_value.m != undef_map)
@@ -822,7 +822,8 @@ _dl_lookup_symbol_x (const char *undef_name, struct link_map *undef_map,
 				  version, type_class, flags, skip_map);
 
   /* The object is used.  */
-  current_value.m->l_used = 1;
+  if (__builtin_expect (current_value.m->l_used == 0, 0))
+    current_value.m->l_used = 1;
 
   if (__builtin_expect (GLRO(dl_debug_mask)
 			& (DL_DEBUG_BINDINGS|DL_DEBUG_PRELINK), 0))
@@ -844,7 +845,7 @@ _dl_setup_hash (struct link_map *map)
   Elf_Symndx nchain;
 
   if (__builtin_expect (map->l_info[DT_ADDRTAGIDX (DT_GNU_HASH) + DT_NUM
-  				    + DT_THISPROCNUM + DT_VERSIONTAGNUM
+				    + DT_THISPROCNUM + DT_VERSIONTAGNUM
 				    + DT_EXTRANUM + DT_VALNUM] != NULL, 1))
     {
       Elf32_Word *hash32
diff --git a/elf/dl-object.c b/elf/dl-object.c
index be4ea38f9f..788e2c07b9 100644
--- a/elf/dl-object.c
+++ b/elf/dl-object.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Storage management for the chain of loaded shared objects.
-   Copyright (C) 1995-2002,2004,2006,2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1995-2002,2004,2006-2008,2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
 
    The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ _dl_new_object (char *realname, const char *libname, int type,
 
   new->l_name = realname;
   new->l_type = type;
+  /* If we set the bit now since we know it is never used we avoid
+     dirtying the cache line later.  */
+  if ((GLRO(dl_debug_mask) & DL_DEBUG_UNUSED) == 0)
+    new->l_used = 1;
   new->l_loader = loader;
 #if NO_TLS_OFFSET != 0
   new->l_tls_offset = NO_TLS_OFFSET;
@@ -174,7 +178,7 @@ _dl_new_object (char *realname, const char *libname, int type,
 	  if (result == NULL)
 	    {
 	      /* We were not able to determine the current directory.
-	         Note that free(origin) is OK if origin == NULL.  */
+		 Note that free(origin) is OK if origin == NULL.  */
 	      free (origin);
 	      origin = (char *) -1;
 	      goto out;