Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:16:19 -0800 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nss_ldap broken Message-ID: <1080335779.11426.15.camel@server.mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <1080334840.11426.12.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <1080273717.18231.10.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20040326125934.GA68357@madman.celabo.org> <1080334840.11426.12.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 13:00, Sean McNeil wrote:
> OK, I think I understand this problem...
>
> When I have my nsswitch.conf setup as follows, I get seg11s:
>
> passwd: files ldap
> group: files ldap
>
> This appears to be an issue with any external nss_*.so.1 module that
> uses pthread. It looks to me it is about the following:
>
> /*
> * Cleanup
> */
> static void
> nss_atexit(void)
> {
> (void)_pthread_rwlock_wrlock(&nss_lock);
> VECTOR_FREE(_nsmap, &_nsmapsize, sizeof(*_nsmap),
> (vector_free_elem)ns_dbt_free);
> VECTOR_FREE(_nsmod, &_nsmodsize, sizeof(*_nsmod),
> (vector_free_elem)ns_mod_free);
> (void)_pthread_rwlock_unlock(&nss_lock);
> }
>
> In my case, the nss_ldap.so.1 module was loaded which pulls in
> libpthread. I'm not sure how this works without a libpthred, but it
> would appear that unless libpthread.so is loaded everything is OK. But
> now, it has been loaded and the rwlock_wrlock() works, but then it has
> been unloaded before rwlock_unlock() gets called.
>
> Would using
>
> #include <reentrant.h>
> rwlock_wrlock()
> rwlock_unlock()
>
> macros fix this?
>
> Cheers,
> Sean
>
Final thought: exit() sets __isthreaded to 0, so I am hazarding a guess
that the lock isn't necessary. Removing the lock/unlock from
nss_atexit() did the trick.
Sean
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