From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21113 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2014 16:55:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 20665 invoked by uid 48); 16 Jun 2014 16:54:59 -0000 From: "fweimer at redhat dot com" To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug nptl/16657] Lock elision breaks pthread_mutex_destroy Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:55:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: nptl X-Bugzilla-Version: 2.18 X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: fweimer at redhat dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: RESOLVED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg01083.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16657 --- Comment #14 from Florian Weimer --- (In reply to Rich Felker from comment #13) > Yes, see comment #5. But if you're asking about security flag, my impression > was that so far the security flag is only being used where the bug leads > directly to a security problem more serious than plain DoS. I was asking about real-world application impact, e.g. "we discovered this bug because Apache httpd was crashing after processing a certain sequence of requests" (purely hypothetically speaking). It's not always easy to draw the line between a reliability bug which manifests somewhat randomly, and a denial-of-service vulnerability which can be triggered with some non-negligible probability (which will approach 1 after a sufficient number of attempts). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.