tzset generates ThreadSanitizer warnings if TZ not set

[Fredrik Arnerup]

A program that calls tzset (e.g. via mktime) from multiple threads will generate ThreadSanitizer warnings, but only if the environment variable TZ is not set. Please see attached example.

Not sure if it is a glibc bug or a limitation in ThreadSanitizer.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release: 22.04

$ apt-cache policy libc6
libc6:
  Installed: 2.35-0ubuntu3.1
  Candidate: 2.35-0ubuntu3.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.35-0ubuntu3.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.35-0ubuntu3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages

[Simon Chopin (schopin)]

Might be a false positive. AFAICT this warns about writing to old_tz, which AFAICT is always dealt with under the tzset_lock except in __libc_tzset_freemem which I'm guessing is only ran when the main thread exits.