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diff --git a/elf/dl-close.c b/elf/dl-close.c
index 648970332e..9f93ab7628 100644
--- a/elf/dl-close.c
+++ b/elf/dl-close.c
@@ -805,19 +805,37 @@ _dl_close (void *_map)
{
struct link_map *map = _map;
- /* First see whether we can remove the object at all. */
+ /* We must take the lock to examine the contents of map and avoid
+ concurrent dlopens. */
+ __rtld_lock_lock_recursive (GL(dl_load_lock));
+
+ /* At this point we are guaranteed nobody else is touching the list of
+ loaded maps, but a concurrent dlclose might have freed our map
+ before we took the lock. There is no way to detect this (see below)
+ so we proceed assuming this isn't the case. First see whether we
+ can remove the object at all. */
if (__glibc_unlikely (map->l_flags_1 & DF_1_NODELETE))
{
- assert (map->l_init_called);
/* Nope. Do nothing. */
+ __rtld_lock_unlock_recursive (GL(dl_load_lock));
return;
}
+ /* At present this is an unreliable check except in the case where the
+ caller has recursively called dlclose and we are sure the link map
+ has not been freed. In a non-recursive dlclose the map itself
+ might have been freed and this access is potentially a data race
+ with whatever other use this memory might have now, or worse we
+ might silently corrupt memory if it looks enough like a link map.
+ POSIX has language in dlclose that appears to guarantee that this
+ should be a detectable case and given that dlclose should be threadsafe
+ we need this to be a reliable detection.
+ This is bug 20990. */
if (__builtin_expect (map->l_direct_opencount, 1) == 0)
- _dl_signal_error (0, map->l_name, NULL, N_("shared object not open"));
-
- /* Acquire the lock. */
- __rtld_lock_lock_recursive (GL(dl_load_lock));
+ {
+ __rtld_lock_unlock_recursive (GL(dl_load_lock));
+ _dl_signal_error (0, map->l_name, NULL, N_("shared object not open"));
+ }
_dl_close_worker (map, false);