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author | Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> | 2011-03-24 14:18:00 -0400 |
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committer | Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> | 2011-03-24 14:18:00 -0400 |
commit | b470030f839a375e5030ec9d44903ef7581c15a2 (patch) | |
tree | 462b1df89a3ea45bcf50b9d0a844472576ed6585 /src/unistd/linkat.c | |
parent | 095820016689dfdc9141f477a86de22054c86078 (diff) | |
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overhaul cancellation to fix resource leaks and dangerous behavior with signals
this commit addresses two issues: 1. a race condition, whereby a cancellation request occurring after a syscall returned from kernelspace but before the subsequent CANCELPT_END would cause cancellable resource-allocating syscalls (like open) to leak resources. 2. signal handlers invoked while the thread was blocked at a cancellation point behaved as if asynchronous cancellation mode wer in effect, resulting in potentially dangerous state corruption if a cancellation request occurs. the glibc/nptl implementation of threads shares both of these issues. with this commit, both are fixed. however, cancellation points encountered in a signal handler will not be acted upon if the signal was received while the thread was already at a cancellation point. they will of course be acted upon after the signal handler returns, so in real-world usage where signal handlers quickly return, it should not be a problem. it's possible to solve this problem too by having sigaction() wrap all signal handlers with a function that uses a pthread_cleanup handler to catch cancellation, patch up the saved context, and return into the cancellable function that will catch and act upon the cancellation. however that would be a lot of complexity for minimal if any benefit...
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