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authorIan Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au>2007-11-20 14:12:46 +1100
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2007-12-19 11:06:40 -0800
commite384f41409cb9e543fbc84b375e2ba46cbcbec6a (patch)
treeb0b47dd81e493ebc3c06878ad61dcb8882231c9c /arch/ia64/kernel
parentee211b37aa98123b1d9b19d228011e632a4bbe75 (diff)
[IA64] set_thread_area fails in IA32 chroot
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/kernel/process.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
index a70ad185725c..7377d323131d 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
@@ -739,6 +739,7 @@ flush_thread (void)
ia32_drop_ia64_partial_page_list(current);
current->thread.task_size = IA32_PAGE_OFFSET;
set_fs(USER_DS);
+ memset(current->thread.tls_array, 0, sizeof(current->thread.tls_array));
}
#endif
}