I found a couple cases in libelf that look like they need some extra
locking. I assumed that the client has control over the lifetime of Elf
structures, which is to say that I didn't try to fix the race between
releasing memory allocated for struct Elf in one thread, and trying to
lock the same Elf in other thread.
Right. If elf_end was called on the last ref, then any other simultaneous
call on the same Elf handle is invalid.
The changes are on pmachata.threads branch.
I forked your branch after the libelf-only changes, added in the one later
libelf commit and a nit tweak of my own, and put that on the new temporary
branch "com.redhat.elfutils.roland.pending.libelf-threads". I then
propagated that to com.redhat.elfutils.pmachata.threads so your later
merging should be happy.
If it looks OK to Uli, .roland.pending.libelf-threads can be merged to the
trunk now. I'd like to separate that from reviewing the libdw work.
Thanks,
Roland