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-rw-r--r--src/thread/pthread_create.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/thread/pthread_create.c b/src/thread/pthread_create.c
index cf9cb191..6e49acdc 100644
--- a/src/thread/pthread_create.c
+++ b/src/thread/pthread_create.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ _Noreturn void pthread_exit(void *result)
/* Mark this thread dead before decrementing count */
__lock(self->killlock);
self->dead = 1;
- __unlock(self->killlock);
/* Block all signals before decrementing the live thread count.
* This is important to ensure that dynamically allocated TLS
@@ -38,6 +37,13 @@ _Noreturn void pthread_exit(void *result)
* reasons as well. */
__syscall(SYS_rt_sigprocmask, SIG_BLOCK, SIGALL_SET, &set, _NSIG/8);
+ /* Wait to unlock the kill lock, which governs functions like
+ * pthread_kill which target a thread id, until signals have
+ * been blocked. This precludes observation of the thread id
+ * as a live thread (with application code running in it) after
+ * the thread was reported dead by ESRCH being returned. */
+ __unlock(self->killlock);
+
/* It's impossible to determine whether this is "the last thread"
* until performing the atomic decrement, since multiple threads
* could exit at the same time. For the last thread, revert the