Index: lib/tsan/rtl/tsan_platform_mac.cc
===================================================================
--- lib/tsan/rtl/tsan_platform_mac.cc
+++ lib/tsan/rtl/tsan_platform_mac.cc
@@ -40,6 +40,33 @@
 
 namespace __tsan {
 
+// On OS X, accessing TLVs via __thread or manually by using pthread_key_* is
+// problematic, because there are several places where interceptors are called
+// when TLVs are not accessible (early process startup, thread cleanup, ...).
+// The following provides a "poor man's TLV" implementation, where we use the
+// shadow memory of the pointer returned by pthread_self() to store a pointer to
+// the ThreadState object. The main thread's ThreadState pointer is stored
+// separately in a static variable, because we need to access it even before the
+// shadow memory is set up.
+// TODO(kuba.brecka): This currently leaks the ThreadState objects as we never
+// deallocate them.
+ThreadState *cur_thread() {
+  ThreadState **fake_tls;
+  if (pthread_main_np()) {
+    static ThreadState *main_thread_state = nullptr;
+    fake_tls = &main_thread_state;
+  } else {
+    uptr thread_identity = (uptr)pthread_self();
+    fake_tls = (ThreadState **)MemToShadow(thread_identity);
+  }
+
+  if (*fake_tls == nullptr) {
+    *fake_tls = (ThreadState *)InternalAlloc(sizeof(ThreadState), nullptr);
+    internal_memset(*fake_tls, 0, sizeof(ThreadState));
+  }
+  return *fake_tls;
+}
+
 uptr GetShadowMemoryConsumption() {
   return 0;
 }
Index: lib/tsan/rtl/tsan_rtl.h
===================================================================
--- lib/tsan/rtl/tsan_rtl.h
+++ lib/tsan/rtl/tsan_rtl.h
@@ -409,13 +409,16 @@
                        uptr tls_addr, uptr tls_size);
 };
 
-#ifndef SANITIZER_GO
+#if defined(SANITIZER_GO) && !SANITIZER_MAC
 __attribute__((tls_model("initial-exec")))
 extern THREADLOCAL char cur_thread_placeholder[];
 INLINE ThreadState *cur_thread() {
   return reinterpret_cast<ThreadState *>(&cur_thread_placeholder);
 }
 #endif
+#if SANITIZER_MAC
+ThreadState *cur_thread();
+#endif
 
 class ThreadContext : public ThreadContextBase {
  public:
Index: lib/tsan/rtl/tsan_rtl.cc
===================================================================
--- lib/tsan/rtl/tsan_rtl.cc
+++ lib/tsan/rtl/tsan_rtl.cc
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 namespace __tsan {
 
-#ifndef SANITIZER_GO
+#if defined(SANITIZER_GO) && !SANITIZER_MAC
 THREADLOCAL char cur_thread_placeholder[sizeof(ThreadState)] ALIGNED(64);
 #endif
 static char ctx_placeholder[sizeof(Context)] ALIGNED(64);