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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-04-27 17:20:48 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-04-27 17:20:48 (GMT)
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Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
-rw-r--r--Include/pystate.h1
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS4
-rw-r--r--Modules/signalmodule.c1
-rw-r--r--Python/pystate.c17
4 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Include/pystate.h b/Include/pystate.h
index b9fe61e..729342c 100644
--- a/Include/pystate.h
+++ b/Include/pystate.h
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyThreadState_Clear(PyThreadState *);
PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyThreadState_Delete(PyThreadState *);
#ifdef WITH_THREAD
PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent(void);
+PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyGILState_Reinit(void);
#endif
PyAPI_FUNC(PyThreadState *) PyThreadState_Get(void);
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4c57348..3850505 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
+ APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
+ by Charles-François Natali.
+
- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
strings are too long.
diff --git a/Modules/signalmodule.c b/Modules/signalmodule.c
index f306bba..6f021e7 100644
--- a/Modules/signalmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/signalmodule.c
@@ -976,6 +976,7 @@ void
PyOS_AfterFork(void)
{
#ifdef WITH_THREAD
+ _PyGILState_Reinit();
PyEval_ReInitThreads();
main_thread = PyThread_get_thread_ident();
main_pid = getpid();
diff --git a/Python/pystate.c b/Python/pystate.c
index ddb7d42..3eefa36 100644
--- a/Python/pystate.c
+++ b/Python/pystate.c
@@ -537,6 +537,23 @@ _PyGILState_Fini(void)
autoInterpreterState = NULL;
}
+/* Reset the TLS key - called by PyOS_AfterFork.
+ * This should not be necessary, but some - buggy - pthread implementations
+ * don't flush TLS on fork, see issue #10517.
+ */
+void
+_PyGILState_Reinit(void)
+{
+ PyThreadState *tstate = PyGILState_GetThisThreadState();
+ PyThread_delete_key(autoTLSkey);
+ if ((autoTLSkey = PyThread_create_key()) == -1)
+ Py_FatalError("Could not allocate TLS entry");
+
+ /* re-associate the current thread state with the new key */
+ if (PyThread_set_key_value(autoTLSkey, (void *)tstate) < 0)
+ Py_FatalError("Couldn't create autoTLSkey mapping");
+}
+
/* When a thread state is created for a thread by some mechanism other than
PyGILState_Ensure, it's important that the GILState machinery knows about
it so it doesn't try to create another thread state for the thread (this is