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Revision e384f41409cb9e543fbc84b375e2ba46cbcbec6a authored by Ian Wienand on 20 November 2007, 03:12:46 UTC, committed by Tony Luck on 19 December 2007, 19:06:40 UTC 
[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>
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Tip revision: 64222515138e43da1fcf288f0289ef1020427b87 authored by Linus Torvalds on 22 October 2021, 05:06:08 UTC
Merge tag 'drm-fixes-2021-10-22' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm
Tip revision: 6422251
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