Bug 643343
| Summary: | [Intel 6.0 Bug] Dynamic linker failed to align TCB for AVX | |||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> | |
| Component: | glibc | Assignee: | Andreas Schwab <schwab> | |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-tools-bugs | |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | urgent | |||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | ebachalo, fweimer, hongjiu.lu, jakub, jane.lv, jvillalo, jwest, luyu, pm-eus, pmuller, rpacheco, schwab, syeghiay | |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream | |
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | glibc-2.12-1.7.el6_0.1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
On 64-bit x86 systems with support for AVX vector registers, an insufficient alignment of the thread descriptor may have caused an application to crash during symbol resolution. With this update, the "TCB_ALIGNMENT" value has been increased to 32 bytes, and applications no longer crash.
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Story Points: | --- | |
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| : | 643889 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-11-10 18:57:40 UTC | Type: | --- | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
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| Bug Depends On: | 642584 | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 643889 | |||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2010-10-15 11:04:35 UTC
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On 64-bit x86 systems with support for AVX vector registers, an insufficient alignment of the thread descriptor may have caused an application to crash during symbol resolution. With this update, the "TCB_ALIGNMENT" value has been increased to 32 bytes, and applications no longer crash.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0872.html |