systemd/1346-nss-systemd-avoid-ELF-TLS-for-recursion-guard.patch
Jan Macku 52b8863288 systemd-252-72
Resolves: RHEL-102941, RHEL-180937, RHEL-193714, RHEL-180934
2026-07-16 13:12:47 +02:00

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From b68c06df98888614397997bb3710aea976fb7473 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roman Vinogradov <roman.vinogradov@sap.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:21:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] nss-systemd: avoid ELF TLS for recursion guard
libnss_systemd currently uses a thread_local recursion guard to
avoid re-entering nss-systemd during NSS lookups.
Since libnss_systemd.so.2 is loaded lazily by glibc, accessing ELF TLS
may trigger dynamic TLS allocation in __tls_get_addr(). Under allocation
failure conditions, glibc terminates the process from the dynamic loader
instead of allowing the NSS module to return a normal failure.
Replace the recursion guard with POSIX thread-specific data to preserve the
same per-thread semantics while avoiding ELF TLS in the NSS module.
Note that pthread_setspecific() may still allocate internally on first use
per thread. The key improvement is that any such failure is returned
as a normal error code rather than terminating the process from inside
the dynamic loader.
Related to: #42559
(cherry picked from commit 19bd80e29a02b4f8c9543370eb4a16c014d497f3)
Resolves: RHEL-193714
---
src/nss-systemd/nss-systemd.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/nss-systemd/nss-systemd.c b/src/nss-systemd/nss-systemd.c
index 1d6e25399f..1cb36a153a 100644
--- a/src/nss-systemd/nss-systemd.c
+++ b/src/nss-systemd/nss-systemd.c
@@ -1057,28 +1057,72 @@ enum nss_status _nss_systemd_initgroups_dyn(
return any ? NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS : NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND;
}
-static thread_local unsigned _blocked = 0;
+/* Note that we intentionally use POSIX thread-specific data instead of a plain thread_local variable.
+ * A thread_local in this lazily-loaded DSO uses a dynamic TLS model by default and may require
+ * a dynamic TLS allocation. If that allocation fails, glibc calls _exit() from the dynamic linker,
+ * making the failure unrecoverable. Using pthread_key_t avoids ELF TLS entirely and lets any such
+ * failure propagate as a normal error instead of terminating the process. */
+static pthread_once_t nss_blocked_key_once = PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT;
+static pthread_key_t nss_blocked_key;
+static int nss_blocked_key_error;
+
+static void nss_blocked_key_init(void) {
+ /* NULL destructor: the per-thread value is a plain integer counter encoded as void*,
+ * not a heap allocation, so nothing needs to be freed at thread exit.
+ * No pthread_key_delete: this library is linked with -z nodelete and always opened with
+ * RTLD_NODELETE, so it is never unloaded and the key exists for the process lifetime. */
+ nss_blocked_key_error = pthread_key_create(&nss_blocked_key, NULL);
+}
+
+static int nss_blocked_key_ensure(void) {
+ int r;
+
+ r = pthread_once(&nss_blocked_key_once, nss_blocked_key_init);
+ if (r != 0)
+ return -r;
+
+ if (nss_blocked_key_error != 0)
+ return -nss_blocked_key_error;
+
+ return 0;
+}
_public_ int _nss_systemd_block(bool b) {
+ int r;
+ uintptr_t blocked;
+
+ r = nss_blocked_key_ensure();
+ if (r < 0)
+ return r;
+
+ blocked = (uintptr_t) pthread_getspecific(nss_blocked_key);
/* This blocks recursively: it's blocked for as many times this function is called with `true` until
* it is called an equal time with `false`. */
if (b) {
- if (_blocked >= UINT_MAX)
+ if (blocked >= UINTPTR_MAX)
return -EOVERFLOW;
- _blocked++;
+ blocked++;
} else {
- if (_blocked <= 0)
+ if (blocked == 0)
return -EOVERFLOW;
- _blocked--;
+ blocked--;
}
+ r = pthread_setspecific(nss_blocked_key, (void*) blocked);
+ /* Ignore failure on the unblock path: callers may assert on it. */
+ if (r != 0 && b)
+ return -r;
+
return b; /* Return what is passed in, i.e. the new state from the PoV of the caller */
}
_public_ bool _nss_systemd_is_blocked(void) {
- return _blocked > 0;
+ if (nss_blocked_key_ensure() < 0)
+ return false;
+
+ return (uintptr_t) pthread_getspecific(nss_blocked_key) > 0;
}