Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:22:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: cvs-src-old@freebsd.org Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_descrip.c Message-ID: <200902111522.n1BFM7nT044168@repoman.freebsd.org>
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rwatson 2009-02-11 15:22:01 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:
sys/kern kern_descrip.c
Log:
SVN rev 188485 on 2009-02-11 15:22:01Z by rwatson
Modify fdcopy() so that, during fork(2), it won't copy file descriptors
from the parent to the child process if they have an operation vector
of &badfileops. This narrows a set of races involving system calls that
allocate a new file descriptor, potentially block for some extended
period, and then return the file descriptor, when invoked by a threaded
program that concurrently invokes fork(2). Similar approches are used
in both Solaris and Linux, and the wideness of this race was introduced
in FreeBSD when we moved to a more optimistic implementation of
accept(2) in order to simplify locking.
A small race necessarily remains because the fork(2) might occur after
the finit() in accept(2) but before the system call has returned, but
that appears unavoidable using current APIs. However, this race is
vastly narrower.
The fix can be validated using the newfileops_on_fork regression test.
PR: kern/130348
Reported by: Ivan Shcheklein <shcheklein at gmail dot com>
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Revision Changes Path
1.345 +2 -1 src/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c
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