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Poison was setup at the start of xpcom init when that was assumed to be early enough.
Since then, Poison was added to Maybe, and Maybe has been used everywhere, including in
our channel implementation. As a result, poison was being used before it was initialized.
This basically meant our poison pointers were being replaced with null instead, which
dances into some more UB than accessing a page we have actually allocated. Also, tsan
noticed that accesses to the value were racing with the initializer actually being
called!
A (dynamic) static initializer forces the poison initialization as we can reasonably
hope without getting CallOnce or singleton patterns involved.
Other changes:
* Cleaned up the outdated documentation for mozWritePoison (the alignment
restriction was removed in Bug 1414901)
* Removed the poison supression from TSan
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D94251
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