Thanks to Torvald for the many sanity checks analyzing this problem. Tested on x86_64 and alpha-linux.
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PR libgcc/48076 * emutls.c (__emutls_get_address): Avoid race condition between obj->loc.offset read and emutls_key initialization. diff --git a/libgcc/emutls.c b/libgcc/emutls.c index 22ea440..f1b653b 100644 --- a/libgcc/emutls.c +++ b/libgcc/emutls.c @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ __emutls_get_address (struct __emutls_object *obj) #ifndef __GTHREADS abort (); #else - pointer offset = obj->loc.offset; + pointer offset = __atomic_load_n (&obj->loc.offset, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE); if (__builtin_expect (offset == 0, 0)) { @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ __emutls_get_address (struct __emutls_object *obj) if (offset == 0) { offset = ++emutls_size; - obj->loc.offset = offset; + __atomic_store_n (&obj->loc.offset, offset, __ATOMIC_RELEASE); } __gthread_mutex_unlock (&emutls_mutex); }