Re: [PATCH 07/15] elf: Refactor _dl_update_slotinfo to avoid use after free

[Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>]

On 15/02/2021 09:00, Szabolcs Nagy via Libc-alpha wrote:
> map is not valid to access here because it can be freed by a
> concurrent dlclose, so don't check the modid.

Won't it be protected by the recursive GL(dl_load_lock) in such case?
I think the concurrency issue is between dlopen and _dl_deallocate_tls
called by pthread stack handling (nptl/allocatestack.c).  Am I missing
something here?

> 
> The map == 0 and map != 0 code paths can be shared (avoiding
> the dtv resize in case of map == 0 is just an optimization:
> larger dtv than necessary would be fine too).
> ---
>  elf/dl-tls.c | 21 +++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/elf/dl-tls.c b/elf/dl-tls.c
> index 24d00c14ef..f8b32b3ecb 100644
> --- a/elf/dl-tls.c
> +++ b/elf/dl-tls.c
> @@ -743,6 +743,8 @@ _dl_update_slotinfo (unsigned long int req_modid)
>  	{
>  	  for (size_t cnt = total == 0 ? 1 : 0; cnt < listp->len; ++cnt)
>  	    {
> +	      size_t modid = total + cnt;
> +
>  	      size_t gen = listp->slotinfo[cnt].gen;
>  
>  	      if (gen > new_gen)
> @@ -758,25 +760,12 @@ _dl_update_slotinfo (unsigned long int req_modid)
>  
>  	      /* If there is no map this means the entry is empty.  */
>  	      struct link_map *map = listp->slotinfo[cnt].map;
> -	      if (map == NULL)
> -		{
> -		  if (dtv[-1].counter >= total + cnt)
> -		    {
> -		      /* If this modid was used at some point the memory
> -			 might still be allocated.  */
> -		      free (dtv[total + cnt].pointer.to_free);
> -		      dtv[total + cnt].pointer.val = TLS_DTV_UNALLOCATED;
> -		      dtv[total + cnt].pointer.to_free = NULL;
> -		    }
> -
> -		  continue;
> -		}
> -
>  	      /* Check whether the current dtv array is large enough.  */
> -	      size_t modid = map->l_tls_modid;
> -	      assert (total + cnt == modid);
>  	      if (dtv[-1].counter < modid)
>  		{
> +		  if (map == NULL)
> +		    continue;
> +
>  		  /* Resize the dtv.  */
>  		  dtv = _dl_resize_dtv (dtv);
>  
>