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* lift sigaction abort locking to fix posix_spawn child deadlockRich Felker2020-10-241-13/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 25ea9f712c30c32957de493d4711ee39d0bbb024 introduced a deadlock to the posix_spawn child whereby, if abort was called in the parent and ended up taking the abort lock to terminate the process, the __libc_sigaction calls in the child would wait forever to obtain a lock that would not be released. this could be fixed by having abort set the abort lock as the exit futex address, but it's cleaner to just remove the SIGABRT special handling from the internal __libc_sigaction and lift it to the public sigaction function. nothing but the posix_spawn child calls __libc_sigaction on SIGABRT, and since commit b7bc966522d73e1dc420b5ee6fc7a2e78099a08c the abort lock is held at the time of __clone, which precludes the child inheriting a kernel-level signal disposition inconsistent with the disposition on the abstract machine. this means it's fine to inspect and modify the disposition in the child without a lock.
* fix unintended observability of SIGABRT disposition reset via sigactionRich Felker2020-10-141-9/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | the existing abort locking logic in sigaction only accounted for attempts to change the disposition, not attempts to observe the change made by abort. unfortunately the change is still observable in at least one other place: inheritance of signal dispositions across exec and posix_spawn. fixing these is a separate task and it's not even clear whether a complete fix is possible.
* move __abort_lock to its own file and drop pointless weak_alias trickRich Felker2020-10-141-6/+0
| | | | | | | | the dummy definition of __abort_lock in sigaction.c was performing exactly the same role that putting the lock in its own source file could and should have been used to achieve. while we're moving it, give it a proper declaration.
* fix external dummy_lock symbol inadvertently introduced in sigactionRich Felker2019-08-171-1/+1
| | | | | commit 9b14ad541068d4f7d0be9bcd1ff4c70090d868d3 introduced this namespace violation.
* add __timedwait backend workaround for old kernels where futex EINTRsRich Felker2018-12-181-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | prior to linux 2.6.22, futex wait could fail with EINTR even for non-interrupting (SA_RESTART) signals. this was no problem provided the caller simply restarted the wait, but sem_[timed]wait is required by POSIX to return when interrupted by a signal. commit a113434cd68ce30642c4995b1caadcd084be6f09 introduced this behavior, and commit c0ed5a201b2bdb6d1896064bec0020c9973db0a1 reverted it based on a mistaken belief that it was not required. this belief stems from a bug in the specification: the description requires the function to return when interrupted, but the errors section marks EINTR as a "may fail" condition rather than a "shall fail" one. since there does seem to be significant value in the change made in commit c0ed5a201b2bdb6d1896064bec0020c9973db0a1, making it so that programs that call sem_wait without checking for EINTR don't silently make forward progress without obtaining the semaphore or treat it as a fatal error and abort, add a behind-the-scenes mechanism in the __timedwait backend to suppress EINTR in programs that have never installed interrupting signal handlers, and have sigaction track and report this state. this way the semaphore code is not cluttered by workarounds and can be updated (to be done in next commit) to reflect the high-level logic for conforming behavior. these changes are based loosely on a patch by Markus Wichmann, with the main changes being atomic update to flag object and moving the workaround from sem_timedwait to the __timedwait futex backend.
* split internal lock API out of libc.h, creating lock.hRich Felker2018-09-121-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | this further reduces the number of source files which need to include libc.h and thereby be potentially exposed to libc global state and internals. this will also facilitate further improvements like adding an inline fast-path, if we want to do so later.
* define and use internal macros for hidden visibility, weak refsRich Felker2018-09-051-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | this cleans up what had become widespread direct inline use of "GNU C" style attributes directly in the source, and lowers the barrier to increased use of hidden visibility, which will be useful to recovering some of the efficiency lost when the protected visibility hack was dropped in commit dc2f368e565c37728b0d620380b849c3a1ddd78f, especially on archs where the PLT ABI is costly.
* consistently use _NSIG/8 idiom for kernel sigset size in sigactionRich Felker2018-09-011-3/+3
| | | | | | | this code in sigaction was the only place where sizeof was being applied to the kernel sigaction's mask member to get the size argument to pass to the kernel. everywhere else, _NSIG/8 is used for this purpose.
* always terminate by SIGABRT when abort is calledRich Felker2018-09-011-4/+21
| | | | | | | | Linux makes this surprisingly difficult, but it can be done. the trick here is using the fact that we control the implementation of sigaction to prevent changing the disposition of SIGABRT to anything but SIG_DFL after abort has tried and failed to terminate the process simply by calling raise(SIGABRT).
* fix crash when signal number 0 is passed to sigactionRich Felker2015-12-151-5/+1
| | | | | | this error case was overlooked in the old range checking logic. new check is moved out of __libc_sigaction to the public wrapper in order to unify the error path and reduce code size.
* fix signal return for sh/fdpicRich Felker2015-09-231-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the restorer function pointer provided in the kernel sigaction structure is interpreted by the kernel as a raw code address, not a function descriptor. this commit moves the declarations of the __restore and __restore_rt symbols to ksigaction.h so that arch versions of the file can override them, and introduces a version for sh which declares them as objects rather than functions. an alternate solution would have been defining SA_RESTORER to 0 so that the functions are not used, but this both requires executable stack (since the sh kernel does not have a vdso page with permanent restorer functions) and crashes on qemu user-level emulation.
* always initialize thread pointer at program startRich Felker2014-03-241-4/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | this is the first step in an overhaul aimed at greatly simplifying and optimizing everything dealing with thread-local state. previously, the thread pointer was initialized lazily on first access, or at program startup if stack protector was in use, or at certain random places where inconsistent state could be reached if it were not initialized early. while believed to be fully correct, the logic was fragile and non-obvious. in the first phase of the thread pointer overhaul, support is retained (and in some cases improved) for systems/situation where loading the thread pointer fails, e.g. old kernels. some notes on specific changes: - the confusing use of libc.main_thread as an indicator that the thread pointer is initialized is eliminated in favor of an explicit has_thread_pointer predicate. - sigaction no longer needs to ensure that the thread pointer is initialized before installing a signal handler (this was needed to prevent a situation where the signal handler caused the thread pointer to be initialized and the subsequent sigreturn cleared it again) but it still needs to ensure that implementation-internal thread-related signals are not blocked. - pthread tsd initialization for the main thread is deferred in a new manner to minimize bloat in the static-linked __init_tp code. - pthread_setcancelstate no longer needs special handling for the situation before the thread pointer is initialized. it simply fails on systems that cannot support a thread pointer, which are non-conforming anyway. - pthread_cleanup_push/pop now check for missing thread pointer and nop themselves out in this case, so stdio no longer needs to avoid the cancellable path when the thread pointer is not available. a number of cases remain where certain interfaces may crash if the system does not support a thread pointer. at this point, these should be limited to pthread interfaces, and the number of such cases should be fewer than before.
* include cleanups: remove unused headers and add feature test macrosSzabolcs Nagy2013-12-121-1/+0
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* optimize posix_spawn to avoid spurious sigaction syscallsRich Felker2013-08-091-1/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the trick here is that sigaction can track for us which signals have ever had a signal handler set for them, and only those signals need to be considered for reset. this tracking mask may have false positives, since it is impossible to remove bits from it without race conditions. false negatives are not possible since the mask is updated with atomic operations prior to making the sigaction syscall. implementation-internal signals are set to SIG_IGN rather than SIG_DFL so that a signal raised in the parent (e.g. calling pthread_cancel on the thread executing pthread_spawn) does not have any chance make it to the child, where it would cause spurious termination by signal. this change reduces the minimum/typical number of syscalls in the child from around 70 to 4 (including execve). this should greatly improve the performance of posix_spawn and other interfaces which use it (popen and system). to facilitate these changes, sigismember is also changed to return 0 rather than -1 for invalid signals, and to return the actual status of implementation-internal signals. POSIX allows but does not require an error on invalid signal numbers, and in fact returning an error tends to confuse applications which wrongly assume the return value of sigismember is boolean.
* use separate sigaction buffers for old and new dataTimo Teräs2013-07-301-5/+5
| | | | | | in signal() it is needed since __sigaction uses restrict in parameters and sharing the buffer is technically an aliasing error. do the same for the syscall, as at least qemu-user does not handle it properly.
* clean up sloppy nested inclusion from pthread_impl.hRich Felker2012-11-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | this mirrors the stdio_impl.h cleanup. one header which is not strictly needed, errno.h, is left in pthread_impl.h, because since pthread functions return their error codes rather than using errno, nearly every single pthread function needs the errno constants. in a few places, rather than bringing in string.h to use memset, the memset was replaced by direct assignment. this seems to generate much better code anyway, and makes many functions which were previously non-leaf functions into leaf functions (possibly eliminating a great deal of bloat on some platforms where non-leaf functions require ugly prologue and/or epilogue).
* avoid the thread-ptr-init behavior of sigaction when not installing handlerRich Felker2012-10-111-1/+2
| | | | | | this is necessary because posix_spawn calls sigaction after vfork, and if the thread pointer is not already initialized, initializing it in the child corrupts the parent process's state.
* use restrict everywhere it's required by c99 and/or posix 2008Rich Felker2012-09-061-2/+2
| | | | | | | | to deal with the fact that the public headers may be used with pre-c99 compilers, __restrict is used in place of restrict, and defined appropriately for any supported compiler. we also avoid the form [restrict] since older versions of gcc rejected it due to a bug in the original c99 standard, and instead use the form *restrict.
* remove unused var in new sigaction codeRich Felker2012-07-111-1/+1
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* changes to kernel sigaction struct handling in preparation for mips portRich Felker2012-07-111-14/+7
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* work around "signal loses thread pointer" issue with "approach 2"Rich Felker2012-02-271-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | this was discussed on the mailing list and no consensus on the preferred solution was reached, so in anticipation of a release, i'm just committing a minimally-invasive solution that avoids the problem by ensuring that multi-threaded-capable programs will always have initialized the thread pointer before any signal handler can run. in the long term we may switch to initializing the thread pointer at program start time whenever the program has the potential to access any per-thread data.
* overhaul implementation-internal signal protectionsRich Felker2011-05-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the new approach relies on the fact that the only ways to create sigset_t objects without invoking UB are to use the sig*set() functions, or from the masks returned by sigprocmask, sigaction, etc. or in the ucontext_t argument to a signal handler. thus, as long as sigfillset and sigaddset avoid adding the "protected" signals, there is no way the application will ever obtain a sigset_t including these bits, and thus no need to add the overhead of checking/clearing them when sigprocmask or sigaction is called. note that the old code actually *failed* to remove the bits from sa_mask when sigaction was called. the new implementations are also significantly smaller, simpler, and faster due to ignoring the useless "GNU HURD signals" 65-1024, which are not used and, if there's any sanity in the world, never will be used.
* use a separate signal from SIGCANCEL for SIGEV_THREAD timersRich Felker2011-04-141-1/+1
| | | | | | otherwise we cannot support an application's desire to use asynchronous cancellation within the callback function. this change also slightly debloats pthread_create.c.
* global cleanup to use the new syscall interfaceRich Felker2011-03-201-1/+1
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* fix previous commit that broke sigreturn. looks like the asm is needed.Rich Felker2011-02-131-5/+2
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* fix omission that kept sa_restorer from being usedRich Felker2011-02-131-1/+1
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* initial check-in, version 0.5.0 v0.5.0Rich Felker2011-02-121-0/+48