[Weechat-dev] [bug #41576] weechat hangs/crashes if libpthread.so.0 is loaded after startup and GnuTLS is used

[Johannes Nixdorf]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?41576>

                 Summary: weechat hangs/crashes if libpthread.so.0 is loaded
after startup and GnuTLS is used
                 Project: WeeChat
            Submitted by: mixi
            Submitted on: Thu 13 Feb 2014 10:56:47 AM GMT
                Category: other
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: other
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 0.4.3
                IRC nick: mixi

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Details:

GnuTLS sets up mutexes with pthread_mutex_init before libpthread.so.0 is
loaded. This works because glibc provides stubbed pthread functions, which are
used when libpthread.so.0 is not loaded. Because some weechat plugins link to
libpthread.so.0, it is loaded after the mutex is thought to be initialized
with pthread_mutex_init (which is actually a stub, because the libpthread.so.0
wasn't loaded) and later calls to e.g. pthread_mutex_lock/pthread_mutex_unlock
use code from libpthread.so.0, which assumes the mutex was properly
initialized. This causes weechat to crash in some cases and hang in
pthread_mutex_lock in other cases (as shown in the attached file).

This is not a problem when compiling weechat with autotools, because it links
the weechat binary with libpthread.so.0. With cmake this only happens on
openbsd.



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File Attachments:


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Date: Thu 13 Feb 2014 10:56:47 AM GMT  Name: weechat_bt_hang.txt  Size: 3kB  
By: mixi

<http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=30533>

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