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gmain: Access Unix signal handler state atomically

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There are two variables which are used to pass state from the Unix
signal handler interrupt function to the rest of `gmain.c`. They are
currently defined as `sig_atomic_t`, which means that they are
guaranteed to be interrupt safe. However, it does not guarantee they are
thread-safe, and GLib attaches its signal handler interrupt function to
a worker thread.

Make them thread-safe using atomics. It’s not possible to use locks, as
pthread mutex functions are not signal-handler-safe. In particular, this
means we have to be careful not to end up using GLib’s fallback atomics
implementation, as that secretly uses a mutex. Better to be unsafe than
have a re-entrant call into `pthread_mutex_lock()` from a nested signal
handler.

This commit solves two problems:
 1. Writes to `any_unix_signal_pending` and `unix_signal_pending` could
    be delivered out of order to the worker thread which calls
    `dispatch_unix_signals()`, resulting in signals not being handled
    until the next iteration of that worker thread. This is a
    performance problem but not a correctness problem.
 2. Setting an element of `unix_signal_pending` from
    `g_unix_signal_handler()` and clearing it from
    `dispatch_unix_signals_unlocked()` (in the worker thread) could
    race, resulting in a signal emission being cleared without being
    handled. That’s a correctness problem.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>

Fixes: #1670
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Philip Withnall 2019-12-18 16:46:13 +00:00
parent 9792209f3c
commit 253f5cda82
1 changed files with 15 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -448,6 +448,10 @@ static GMainContext *glib_worker_context;
/* UNIX signals work by marking one of these variables then waking the
* worker context to check on them and dispatch accordingly.
*
* Both variables must be accessed using atomic primitives, unless those atomic
* primitives are implemented using fallback mutexes (as those aren’t safe in
* an interrupt context).
*/
#ifdef HAVE_SIG_ATOMIC_T
static volatile sig_atomic_t unix_signal_pending[NSIG];
@ -5199,7 +5203,7 @@ dispatch_unix_signals_unlocked (void)
gint i;
/* clear this first in case another one arrives while we're processing */
any_unix_signal_pending = FALSE;
g_atomic_int_set (&any_unix_signal_pending, 0);
/* We atomically test/clear the bit from the global array in case
* other signals arrive while we are dispatching.
@ -5218,9 +5222,7 @@ dispatch_unix_signals_unlocked (void)
*
* Note specifically: we must check _our_ array.
*/
pending[i] = unix_signal_pending[i];
if (pending[i])
unix_signal_pending[i] = FALSE;
pending[i] = g_atomic_int_compare_and_exchange (&unix_signal_pending[i], 1, 0);
}
/* handle GChildWatchSource instances */
@ -5526,8 +5528,14 @@ g_unix_signal_handler (int signum)
{
gint saved_errno = errno;
unix_signal_pending[signum] = TRUE;
any_unix_signal_pending = TRUE;
#if defined(G_ATOMIC_LOCK_FREE) && defined(__GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_4)
g_atomic_int_set (&unix_signal_pending[signum], 1);
g_atomic_int_set (&any_unix_signal_pending, 1);
#else
#warning "Can't use atomics in g_unix_signal_handler(): Unix signal handling will be racy"
unix_signal_pending[signum] = 1;
any_unix_signal_pending = 1;
#endif
g_wakeup_signal (glib_worker_context->wakeup);
@ -5996,7 +6004,7 @@ glib_worker_main (gpointer data)
g_main_context_iteration (glib_worker_context, TRUE);
#ifdef G_OS_UNIX
if (any_unix_signal_pending)
if (g_atomic_int_get (&any_unix_signal_pending))
dispatch_unix_signals ();
#endif
}