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When signals are hard-blocked in order to do time-travel
socket processing, we set signals_blocked and then handle
SIGIO signals by setting the SIGIO bit in signals_pending.
When unblocking, we first set signals_blocked to 0, and
then handle all pending signals. We have to set it first,
so that we can again properly block/unblock inside the
unblock, if the time-travel handlers need to be processed.
Unfortunately, this is racy. We can get into this situation:
// signals_pending = SIGIO_MASK
unblock_signals_hard()
signals_blocked = 0;
if (signals_pending && signals_enabled) {
block_signals();
unblock_signals()
...
sig_handler_common(SIGIO, NULL, NULL);
sigio_handler()
...
sigio_reg_handler()
irq_do_timetravel_handler()
reg->timetravel_handler() ==
vu_req_interrupt_comm_handler()
vu_req_read_message()
vhost_user_recv_req()
vhost_user_recv()
vhost_user_recv_header()
// reads 12 bytes header of
// 20 bytes message
<-- receive SIGIO here <--
sig_handler()
int enabled = signals_enabled; // 1
if ((signals_blocked || !enabled) && (sig == SIGIO)) {
if (!signals_blocked && time_travel_mode == TT_MODE_EXTERNAL)
sigio_run_timetravel_handlers()
_sigio_handler()
sigio_reg_handler()
... as above ...
vhost_user_recv_header()
// reads 8 bytes that were message payload
// as if it were header - but aborts since
// it then gets -EAGAIN
...
--> end signal handler -->
// continue in vhost_user_recv()
// full_read() for 8 bytes payload busy loops
// entire process hangs here
Conceptually, to fix this, we need to ensure that the
signal handler cannot run while we hard-unblock signals.
The thing that makes this more complex is that we can be
doing hard-block/unblock while unblocking. Introduce a
new signals_blocked_pending variable that we can keep at
non-zero as long as pending signals are being processed,
then we only need to ensure it's decremented safely and
the signal handler will only increment it if it's already
non-zero (or signals_blocked is set, of course.)
Note also that only the outermost call to hard-unblock is
allowed to decrement signals_blocked_pending, since it
could otherwise reach zero in an inner call, and leave
the same race happening if the timetravel_handler loops,
but that's basically required of it.
Fixes: d6b399a0e02a ("um: time-travel/signals: fix ndelay() in interrupt")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240703110144.28034-2-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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