Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [ 07/23] fifo: Do not restart open() if it already found a partner | Date | Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:12:00 -0700 |
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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
commit 05d290d66be6ef77a0b962ebecf01911bd984a78 upstream.
If a parent and child process open the two ends of a fifo, and the child immediately exits, the parent may receive a SIGCHLD before its open() returns. In that case, we need to make sure that open() will return successfully after the SIGCHLD handler returns, instead of throwing EINTR or being restarted. Otherwise, the restarted open() would incorrectly wait for a second partner on the other end.
The following test demonstrates the EINTR that was wrongly thrown from the parent’s open(). Change .sa_flags = 0 to .sa_flags = SA_RESTART to see a deadlock instead, in which the restarted open() waits for a second reader that will never come. (On my systems, this happens pretty reliably within about 5 to 500 iterations. Others report that it manages to loop ~forever sometimes; YMMV.)
#include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <signal.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h>
#define CHECK(x) do if ((x) == -1) {perror(#x); abort();} while(0)
void handler(int signum) {}
int main() { struct sigaction act = {.sa_handler = handler, .sa_flags = 0}; CHECK(sigaction(SIGCHLD, &act, NULL)); CHECK(mknod("fifo", S_IFIFO | S_IRWXU, 0)); for (;;) { int fd; pid_t pid; putc('.', stderr); CHECK(pid = fork()); if (pid == 0) { CHECK(fd = open("fifo", O_RDONLY)); _exit(0); } CHECK(fd = open("fifo", O_WRONLY)); CHECK(close(fd)); CHECK(waitpid(pid, NULL, 0)); } }
This is what I suspect was causing the Git test suite to fail in t9010-svn-fe.sh:
http://bugs.debian.org/678852
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- fs/fifo.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/fifo.c +++ b/fs/fifo.c @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/pipe_fs_i.h> -static void wait_for_partner(struct inode* inode, unsigned int *cnt) +static int wait_for_partner(struct inode* inode, unsigned int *cnt) { int cur = *cnt; @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ static void wait_for_partner(struct inod if (signal_pending(current)) break; } + return cur == *cnt ? -ERESTARTSYS : 0; } static void wake_up_partner(struct inode* inode) @@ -67,8 +68,7 @@ static int fifo_open(struct inode *inode * seen a writer */ filp->f_version = pipe->w_counter; } else { - wait_for_partner(inode, &pipe->w_counter); - if(signal_pending(current)) + if (wait_for_partner(inode, &pipe->w_counter)) goto err_rd; } } @@ -90,8 +90,7 @@ static int fifo_open(struct inode *inode wake_up_partner(inode); if (!pipe->readers) { - wait_for_partner(inode, &pipe->r_counter); - if (signal_pending(current)) + if (wait_for_partner(inode, &pipe->r_counter)) goto err_wr; } break;
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