https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697264
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=5fe9e9ed1ccf217e11bd3cb99b1c6bb10cc96ba3

From 5fe9e9ed1ccf217e11bd3cb99b1c6bb10cc96ba3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Veillard <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:10:41 +0000
Subject: Remove risk of lockup in dictionary initialization

Reported by Petr Sumbera <[email protected]>
Two threads entering xmlInitializeDict concurently could lead
to a lockup due to multiple initializations of the lock used.
To avoid this problem move this to a new private function
called from xmlOnceInit() and deprecate the old initalizer.
Since threaded programs must call xmlInitParser() and this
will lead to dereference of private data and the call to
xmlOnceInit() guaranteed to be unique this should be safe now.
---
diff --git a/dict.c b/dict.c
index 164c7f2..5f71d55 100644
--- a/dict.c
+++ b/dict.c
@@ -151,13 +151,28 @@ static unsigned int rand_seed = 0;
  * xmlInitializeDict:
  *
  * Do the dictionary mutex initialization.
- * this function is not thread safe, initialization should
- * preferably be done once at startup
+ * this function is deprecated
  *
  * Returns 0 if initialization was already done, and 1 if that
  * call led to the initialization
  */
 int xmlInitializeDict(void) {
+    return(0);
+}
+
+/**
+ * __xmlInitializeDict:
+ *
+ * This function is not public
+ * Do the dictionary mutex initialization.
+ * this function is not thread safe, initialization should
+ * normally be done once at setup when called from xmlOnceInit()
+ * we may also land in this code if thread support is not compiled in
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if initialization was already done, and 1 if that
+ * call led to the initialization
+ */
+int __xmlInitializeDict(void) {
     if (xmlDictInitialized)
         return(1);
 
@@ -183,7 +198,7 @@ int __xmlRandom(void) {
     int ret;
 
     if (xmlDictInitialized == 0)
-        xmlInitializeDict();
+        __xmlInitializeDict();
 
     xmlRMutexLock(xmlDictMutex);
 #ifdef HAVE_RAND_R
@@ -522,7 +537,7 @@ xmlDictCreate(void) {
     xmlDictPtr dict;
 
     if (!xmlDictInitialized)
-        if (!xmlInitializeDict())
+        if (!__xmlInitializeDict())
             return(NULL);
 
 #ifdef DICT_DEBUG_PATTERNS
@@ -590,7 +605,7 @@ xmlDictCreateSub(xmlDictPtr sub) {
 int
 xmlDictReference(xmlDictPtr dict) {
     if (!xmlDictInitialized)
-        if (!xmlInitializeDict())
+        if (!__xmlInitializeDict())
             return(-1);
 
     if (dict == NULL) return -1;
@@ -754,7 +769,7 @@ xmlDictFree(xmlDictPtr dict) {
 	return;
 
     if (!xmlDictInitialized)
-        if (!xmlInitializeDict())
+        if (!__xmlInitializeDict())
             return;
 
     /* decrement the counter, it may be shared by a parser and docs */
diff --git a/libxml.h b/libxml.h
index 7558b5f..2da9044 100644
--- a/libxml.h
+++ b/libxml.h
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ void __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock(void);
 void __xmlGlobalInitMutexUnlock(void);
 void __xmlGlobalInitMutexDestroy(void);
 
+int __xmlInitializeDict(void);
+
 #if defined(HAVE_RAND) && defined(HAVE_SRAND) && defined(HAVE_TIME)
 /*
  * internal thread safe random function
diff --git a/threads.c b/threads.c
index c8414e1..f2f2703 100644
--- a/threads.c
+++ b/threads.c
@@ -954,6 +954,7 @@ xmlOnceInit(void)
 #ifdef HAVE_PTHREAD_H
     (void) pthread_key_create(&globalkey, xmlFreeGlobalState);
     mainthread = pthread_self();
+    __xmlInitializeDict();
 #elif defined(HAVE_WIN32_THREADS)
     if (!run_once.done) {
         if (InterlockedIncrement(&run_once.control) == 1) {
@@ -961,6 +962,7 @@ xmlOnceInit(void)
             globalkey = TlsAlloc();
 #endif
             mainthread = GetCurrentThreadId();
+	    __xmlInitializeDict();
             run_once.done = 1;
         } else {
             /* Another thread is working; give up our slice and
@@ -974,6 +976,7 @@ xmlOnceInit(void)
         globalkey = tls_allocate();
         tls_set(globalkey, NULL);
         mainthread = find_thread(NULL);
+	__xmlInitializeDict();
     } else
         atomic_add(&run_once_init, -1);
 #endif
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