elf: Support recursive use of dynamic TLS in interposed malloc

It turns out that quite a few applications use bundled mallocs that
have been built to use global-dynamic TLS (instead of the recommended
initial-exec TLS).  The previous workaround from
commit afe42e935b3ee97bac9a7064157587777259c60e ("elf: Avoid some
free (NULL) calls in _dl_update_slotinfo") does not fix all
encountered cases unfortunatelly.

This change avoids the TLS generation update for recursive use
of TLS from a malloc that was called during a TLS update.  This
is possible because an interposed malloc has a fixed module ID and
TLS slot.  (It cannot be unloaded.)  If an initially-loaded module ID
is encountered in __tls_get_addr and the dynamic linker is already
in the middle of a TLS update, use the outdated DTV, thus avoiding
another call into malloc.  It's still necessary to update the
DTV to the most recent generation, to get out of the slow path,
which is why the check for recursion is needed.

The bookkeeping is done using a global counter instead of per-thread
flag because TLS access in the dynamic linker is tricky.

All this will go away once the dynamic linker stops using malloc
for TLS, likely as part of a change that pre-allocates all TLS
during pthread_create/dlopen.

Fixes commit d2123d68275acc0f061e73d5f86ca504e0d5a344 ("elf: Fix slow
tls access after dlopen [BZ #19924]").

Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h b/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
index 50f58a60e3..656e8a3fa0 100644
--- a/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
+++ b/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
@@ -1256,6 +1256,20 @@ extern struct link_map *_dl_update_slotinfo (unsigned long int req_modid,
 					     size_t gen)
      attribute_hidden;
 
+/* The last TLS module ID that is initially loaded, plus 1.  TLS
+   addresses for modules with IDs lower than that can be obtained from
+   the DTV even if its generation is outdated.  */
+extern size_t _dl_tls_initial_modid_limit attribute_hidden attribute_relro;
+
+/* Compute _dl_tls_initial_modid_limit.  To be called after initial
+   relocation.  */
+void _dl_tls_initial_modid_limit_setup (void) attribute_hidden;
+
+/* Number of threads currently in a TLS update.  This is used to
+   detect reentrant __tls_get_addr calls without a per-thread
+   flag.  */
+extern unsigned int _dl_tls_threads_in_update attribute_hidden;
+
 /* Look up the module's TLS block as for __tls_get_addr,
    but never touch anything.  Return null if it's not allocated yet.  */
 extern void *_dl_tls_get_addr_soft (struct link_map *l) attribute_hidden;