In multi-threaded programs, registering via pthread_atfork,
de-registering implicitly via dlclose, or running pthread_atfork
handlers during fork was protected by an internal lock. This meant
that a pthread_atfork handler attempting to register another handler or
dlclose a dynamically loaded library would lead to a deadlock.
This commit fixes the deadlock in the following way:
During the execution of handlers at fork time, the atfork lock is
released prior to the execution of each handler and taken again upon its
return. Any handler registrations or de-registrations that occurred
during the execution of the handler are accounted for before proceeding
with further handler execution.
If a handler that hasn't been executed yet gets de-registered by another
handler during fork, it will not be executed. If a handler gets
registered by another handler during fork, it will not be executed
during that particular fork.
The possibility that handlers may now be registered or deregistered
during handler execution means that identifying the next handler to be
run after a given handler may register/de-register others requires some
bookkeeping. The fork_handler struct has an additional field, 'id',
which is assigned sequentially during registration. Thus, handlers are
executed in ascending order of 'id' during 'prepare', and descending
order of 'id' during parent/child handler execution after the fork.
Two tests are included:
* tst-atfork3: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
This test exercises calling dlclose from prepare, parent, and child
handlers.
* tst-atfork4: This test exercises calling pthread_atfork and dlclose
from the prepare handler.
[BZ #24595, BZ #27054]
Co-authored-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h,
support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and
sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following
obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah. I don't
know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not.
remote: *** 912-#endif
remote: *** 913:
remote: *** 914-
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
...
remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
Both htl and nptl uses a different data structure to implement atfork
handlers. The nptl one was refactored by 27761a1042 to use a dynarray
which simplifies the code.
This patch moves the nptl one to be the generic implementation and
replace Hurd linked one. Different than previous NPTL, Hurd also uses
a global lock, so performance should be similar.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, and with a build for
i686-gnu.