The assumption behind the assert in activate_nodelete was wrong:
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 459: activate_nodelete:
Assertion `!imap->l_init_called || imap->l_type != lt_loaded' failed! (edit)
It can happen that an already-loaded object that is in the local
scope is promoted to NODELETE status, via binding to a unique
symbol.
Similarly, it is possible that such NODELETE promotion occurs to
an already-loaded object from the global scope. This is why the
loop in activate_nodelete has to cover all objects in the namespace
of the new object.
In do_lookup_unique, it could happen that the NODELETE status of
an already-loaded object was overwritten with a pending NODELETE
status. As a result, if dlopen fails, this could cause a loss of
the NODELETE status of the affected object, eventually resulting
in an incorrect unload.
Fixes commit f63b73814f ("Remove all
loaded objects if dlopen fails, ignoring NODELETE [BZ #20839]").
