malloc: Fix tcache leak after thread destruction [BZ #22111]

The malloc tcache added in 2.26 will leak all of the elements remaining
in the cache and the cache structure itself when a thread exits. The
defect is that we do not set tcache_shutting_down early enough, and the
thread simply recreates the tcache and places the elements back onto a
new tcache which is subsequently lost as the thread exits (unfreed
memory). The fix is relatively simple, move the setting of
tcache_shutting_down earlier in tcache_thread_freeres. We add a test
case which uses mallinfo and some heuristics to look for unaccounted for
memory usage between the start and end of a thread start/join loop. It
is very reliable at detecting that there is a leak given the number of
iterations.  Without the fix the test will consume 122MiB of leaked
memory.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/malloc/Makefile b/malloc/Makefile
index 50b487eeb5..6cf78e1177 100644
--- a/malloc/Makefile
+++ b/malloc/Makefile
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ tests := mallocbug tst-malloc tst-valloc tst-calloc tst-obstack \
 	 tst-interpose-nothread \
 	 tst-interpose-thread \
 	 tst-alloc_buffer \
+	 tst-malloc-tcache-leak \
 
 tests-static := \
 	 tst-interpose-static-nothread \
@@ -242,3 +243,5 @@ tst-dynarray-fail-ENV = MALLOC_TRACE=$(objpfx)tst-dynarray-fail.mtrace
 $(objpfx)tst-dynarray-fail-mem.out: $(objpfx)tst-dynarray-fail.out
 	$(common-objpfx)malloc/mtrace $(objpfx)tst-dynarray-fail.mtrace > $@; \
 	$(evaluate-test)
+
+$(objpfx)tst-malloc-tcache-leak: $(shared-thread-library)