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authorTorvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>2016-12-21 13:37:19 +0100
committerTorvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>2017-01-13 17:17:38 +0100
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Clear list of acquired robust mutexes in the child process after forking.
Robust mutexes acquired at the time of a call to fork() do not remain acquired by the forked child process. We have to clear the list of acquired robust mutexes before registering this list with the kernel; otherwise, if some of the robust mutexes are process-shared, the parent process can alter the child's robust mutex list, which can lead to deadlocks or even modification of memory that may not be occupied by a mutex anymore. [BZ #19402] * sysdeps/nptl/fork.c (__libc_fork): Clear list of acquired robust mutexes.
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