in threaded programs that unload libraries.
Summary:
The GNOME update to 3.28 exposed a bug in __elf_phdr_match_addr(), which leads
to a crash when building devel/libsoup on powerpc64.
Due to __elf_phdr_match_addr() limiting its search to PF_X sections, on the
PPC64 ELFv1 ABI, it was never matching function pointers properly.
This meant that libthr was never cleaning up its atfork list in
__pthread_cxa_finalize(), so if a library with an atfork handler was unloaded,
libthr would crash on the next fork.
Normally, the null pointer check it does before calling the handler would avoid
this crash, but, due to PPC64 ELFv1 using function descriptors instead of raw
function pointers, a null check against the pointer itself is insufficient, as
the pointer itself was not null, it was just pointing at a function descriptor
that had been zeroed. (Which is an ABI violation.)
Calling a zeroed function descriptor on PPC64 ELFv1 causes a jump to address 0
with a zeroed r2 and r11.
Submitted by: git_bdragon.rtk0.net
Reviewed By: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18364
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