Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:55:04 -0700 (PDT) From: davids@webmaster.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: kern/12141: libc_r passes negative tv_usec values to setitimer -- crash Message-ID: <19990611185504.478F114F01@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 12141
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: libc_r passes negative tv_usec values to setitimer -- crash
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jun 11 12:00:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: David Schwartz
>Release: 3.2-STABLE
>Organization:
WebMaster, Incorporated
>Environment:
FreeBSD vermithrax.youwant.to 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #9: Mon Jun 7 10:15:02 PDT 1999 davids@vermithrax.youwant.to:/usr/src/sys/compile/DAVIDS i386
>Description:
It seems that under some circumstances, the pthreads (libc_r) library computes a negative tv_usec value which it passes to setitimer. setitimer returns EINVAL, causing the threaded program to crash.
>How-To-Repeat:
I'm not sure what it is specifically that's causing it. But it is happening to three of my pthreads-based programs.
>Fix:
This is the *wrong* fix, but it does make the problem go away.
in uthread_kern.c:
/*
* Start the interval timer for the
* calculated time interval:
*/
if(itimer.it_value.tv_usec<=0)
itimer.it_value.tv_usec=1000;
if (setitimer(_ITIMER_SCHED_TIMER, &itimer, NULL
) != 0) {
The 'if' has been added to remove the problem. But the real problem is why it's computing negative values in the first place.
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