I tried to upgrade an IA32 chroot on my IA64 to a new glibc with TLS.
It kept dying because set_thread_area was returning -ESRCH
(bugs.debian.org/451939).
I instrumented arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:get_free_idx() and ended up
seeing output like
[pid] idx desc->a desc->b
-----------------------------
[2710] 0 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2710] 1 -> 0 0
[2710] 2 -> 0 0
[2710] 0 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2710] 1 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2710] 2 -> 0 0
[2711] 0 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2711] 1 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2711] 2 -> 48c0ffff 40dff317
which suggested to me that TLS pointers were surviving exec() calls,
leading to GDT pointers filling up and the eventual failure of
get_free_idx().
I think the solution is flushing the tls array on exec.
Signed-Off-By: Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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