threads/81258: Thread specific data is sometimes assigned to multiple keys and/or threads

[Jens A Nilsson]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:52:23AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2005, Jens Nilsson wrote:
> > Thread specific data is sometimes assinged to multiple keys
> > and/or threads. In the attached test program two threads getting
> > the same tsd for the same key seems to be the most usual.
> >
> > >How-To-Repeat:
> > Run the attached test program a couple of times. One of the
> > threads will wait for input, the bug is most likely to show up if
> > enter is pressed in about half a second after the thread asked
> > for data.
> >
> > I ran into the bug some time ago while developing a bit more
> > complex application that involved a couple of threads all of them
> > with TSD and some doing RPC-calls. In that application I had the
> > same problem with any of the thread libs libpthread, libthr, and
> > libc_r. This test program only seems to be able to repeat the
> > problem with libpthread.
> 
> Thread-specific data is destroyed when the thread exits.  Your
> TSD is allocated using malloc() and destroyed using free().  Your
> test program does nothing to ensure that all threads have started
> running and have all created/initialized their TSD before the
> first thread exits.  malloc() is probably reusing a prior
> allocation that has been free()'d.
> 
> Thread exiting != Thread being joined.

I see, sorry to have bothered you.

-- 
Regards Jens