Bug 237477 - multiple copies of statically-linked libltdl
Summary: multiple copies of statically-linked libltdl
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: unixODBC
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tom Lane
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks: 216179
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-04-23 13:20 UTC by Joe Orton
Modified: 2013-07-03 03:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-03-15 16:29:28 UTC
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Description Joe Orton 2007-04-23 13:20:01 UTC
Description of problem:
libodbcpsql, libodbcinst and libtemplate all statically link copies of libltdl:

# nm -D /usr/lib/libodbcinst.so.1.0.0  | grep lt_
4e8e41f0 T lt_dladderror
4e8e4b90 T lt_dladdsearchdir
4e8e3d00 T lt_dlcaller_get_data
...

Comment 1 Tom Lane 2008-02-12 00:11:38 UTC
Is this a big problem?  The changelog notes
Use private libltdl so we can omit RTLD_GLOBAL from dlopen flags (bz #161399)
so I'm worried about suffering a regression if we try to use libltdl.so.

Comment 2 Joe Orton 2008-02-12 16:38:59 UTC
The copy is not really "private" since it exposes global symbols.  Impact of
this type of issue is:

1) bloat in shipped packages and on disk after installation by shipping N copies
of the same code
2) symbol conflicts when some other library uses this libraries lt_blah symbol
rather than the system libltdl's.  If the local copy is modified and/or has a
different ABI to the system libltdl this can be a big problem.
3) the stale copy of the copied library has bugs not fixed by the system libltdl

Solving (2) without (1) is possible by ensuring the lt_* symbols exposed here
are not made global symbols, e.g. by linking the library using
-export-symbols-regex <SOMETHING> to limit the symbols which are exported.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 02:47:35 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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Comment 5 Tom Lane 2009-06-09 23:21:02 UTC
I had forgotten about this bug, but it seems to be fixed as of F11, as a consequence of updating unixODBC to 2.2.14:

$ nm -D /usr/lib64/libodbcinst.so.2.0.0  | grep lt_
                 U lt_dlclose
                 U lt_dlerror
                 U lt_dlinit
                 U lt_dlopen
                 U lt_dlsym
$ 

Would you confirm it looks okay now?


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