Commit 5f4e8fd0 authored by Jeff Dike's avatar Jeff Dike Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] uml: fix thread startup race 



This fixes a race in the starting of write_sigio_thread.  Previously, some of
the data needed by the thread was initialized after the clone.  If the thread
ran immediately, it would see the uninitialized data, including an empty
pollfds, which would cause it to hang.

We move the data initialization to before the clone, and adjust the error
paths and cleanup accordingly.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 1fbbd684

arch/um/os-Linux/sigio.c

+27 −28
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ static int write_sigio_pid = -1; 
 * the descriptors closed after it is killed.  So, it can't see them change.

 * On the UML side, they are changed under the sigio_lock.

 */

static int write_sigio_fds[2] = { -1, -1 };

static int sigio_private[2] = { -1, -1 };

#define SIGIO_FDS_INIT {-1, -1}



static int write_sigio_fds[2] = SIGIO_FDS_INIT;

static int sigio_private[2] = SIGIO_FDS_INIT;



struct pollfds {

	struct pollfd *poll;
@@ -270,49 +272,46 @@ void write_sigio_workaround(void) 
	/* Did we race? Don't try to optimize this, please, it's not so likely

	 * to happen, and no more than once at the boot. */

	if(write_sigio_pid != -1)

		goto out_unlock;



	write_sigio_pid = run_helper_thread(write_sigio_thread, NULL,

					    CLONE_FILES | CLONE_VM, &stack, 0);

		goto out_free;



	if (write_sigio_pid < 0)

		goto out_clear;

	current_poll = ((struct pollfds) { .poll 	= p,

					   .used 	= 1,

					   .size 	= 1 });



	if (write_sigio_irq(l_write_sigio_fds[0]))

		goto out_kill;

		goto out_clear_poll;



	/* Success, finally. */

	memcpy(write_sigio_fds, l_write_sigio_fds, sizeof(l_write_sigio_fds));

	memcpy(sigio_private, l_sigio_private, sizeof(l_sigio_private));



	current_poll = ((struct pollfds) { .poll 	= p,

					   .used 	= 1,

					   .size 	= 1 });

	write_sigio_pid = run_helper_thread(write_sigio_thread, NULL,

					    CLONE_FILES | CLONE_VM, &stack, 0);



	sigio_unlock();

	return;

	if (write_sigio_pid < 0)

		goto out_clear;



 out_kill:

	l_write_sigio_pid = write_sigio_pid;

	write_sigio_pid = -1;

	sigio_unlock();

	/* Going to call waitpid, avoid holding the lock. */

	os_kill_process(l_write_sigio_pid, 1);

	goto out_free;

	return;



out_clear:

	write_sigio_pid = -1;

 out_unlock:

	sigio_unlock();

	write_sigio_fds[0] = -1;

	write_sigio_fds[1] = -1;

	sigio_private[0] = -1;

	sigio_private[1] = -1;

out_clear_poll:

	current_poll = ((struct pollfds) { .poll	= NULL,

					   .size	= 0,

					   .used	= 0 });

out_free:

	kfree(p);

	sigio_unlock();

out_close2:

	close(l_sigio_private[0]);

	close(l_sigio_private[1]);

out_close1:

	close(l_write_sigio_fds[0]);

	close(l_write_sigio_fds[1]);

	return;

}



void sigio_cleanup(void)

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