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From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Side effect inside assert macro?
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:48:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALoOobMLaHVALn-V8g3FXmUxtuRv0eScVT6O9gLnrRJmvHYX6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmo7ojwru8.fsf@suse.de>

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 5:54 AM Andreas Schwab via Libc-alpha
<libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> In elf/dl-open.c there are two calls to _dl_debug_update inside the
> assert macro:
>
> 581:      assert (_dl_debug_update (args->nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT);
> 930:  assert (_dl_debug_update (args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT);
>
> Is it possible that these are the first calls of _dl_debug_update for
> this nsid?

Regardless of whether it's possible or not, this seems like a really
bad idea(TM).
Given that a fix is trivial, why not just fix it?

I'll send a patch.


-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-25 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-23 12:54 Andreas Schwab
2023-03-25 19:48 ` Paul Pluzhnikov [this message]
2023-03-25 21:32 ` [PATCH] Minor: don't call _dl_debug_update (which can have side effects) inside assert Paul Pluzhnikov
2023-03-25 22:09   ` Florian Weimer
2023-03-26  0:24     ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2023-03-26 10:35       ` Florian Weimer

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