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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 2021 17:03:29 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: closefrom blocking, wchan urdlck
Message-ID:  <YcnVwe/Yb0YU5PVe@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <BE544C61-86CB-48B3-92C7-39F7FFDE64DE@transactionware.com>
References:  <2B3BA665-D42A-4B5F-AD2F-ED10E64A7276@transactionware.com> <YcnFDUxa/m1xeaUS@kib.kiev.ua> <BE544C61-86CB-48B3-92C7-39F7FFDE64DE@transactionware.com>

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On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 03:54:57PM +0100, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
> 
> > On 27 Dec 2021, at 14:52, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 01:39:11PM +0100, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> (On 11.2)
> >> 
> >> I am occasionally seeing closefrom() block in a child process created by a call to pdfork().
> >> 
> >> When this does happen, it is very early after the process has started, while other threads are being created elsewhere in the process. I cannot reproduce it after the thread creation is complete. According to the sigaction man page, this should be async signal safe.
> >> 
> >> Stack trace from the call to closefrom():
> >> 
> >>  * frame #0: 0x000000080090276c libthr.so.3`_umtx_op_err at _umtx_op_err.S:37
> >>    frame #1: 0x00000008008f6121 libthr.so.3`__thr_rwlock_rdlock(rwlock=<unavailable>, flags=<unavailable>, tsp=<unavailable>) at thr_umtx.c:307:10
> >>    frame #2: 0x00000008008ff1ac libthr.so.3`_thr_rtld_rlock_acquire [inlined] _thr_rwlock_rdlock(rwlock=0x0000000800911600, flags=0, tsp=0x0000000000000000) at thr_umtx.h:232:10
> >>    frame #3: 0x00000008008ff19b libthr.so.3`_thr_rtld_rlock_acquire(lock=0x0000000800911600) at thr_rtld.c:125
> >>    frame #4: 0x000000080075332b ld-elf.so.1`rlock_acquire(lock=0x0000000800765270, lockstate=0x00007fffdfbfb8d0) at rtld_lock.c:208:2
> >>    frame #5: 0x000000080074ba20 ld-elf.so.1`_rtld_bind(obj=0x0000000800769000, reloff=6072) at rtld.c:861:5
> >>    frame #6: 0x0000000800747c7d ld-elf.so.1`_rtld_bind_start at rtld_start.S:121
> >>    frame #7: 0x00000000006562d3 prog`Twio::ProcHandle::spawn(this=<unavailable>, command="/bin/echo", args=0x0000000800d7e000, descriptor_mapping=<unavailable>, descriptor_end=3) at prochandle_pdfork.cpp:308:2
> > And where is the closefrom() call in the demonstrated trace?
> > 
> > What version of the system do you use?
> > You need at least cbdec8db18b533f6d7be (on HEAD) or a5659943e37a74c96e
> > (stable/13) for pdfork() to behave sanely.  But you still not allowed to
> > call non-async signal safe functions in the child before exec.
> 
> 
> This is 12.2-p11. I just noticed that I wrote 11.2 above, that is incorrect.
> 
> Frame 7 is a call to closefrom(). The child process calls dup2(), closefrom(), signal() and then execv(). No other calls are made, and I believe closefrom() is meant to be async signal safe.
> 
Frame 7 cannot be a call to closefrom(), it would be resolved to closefrom()
symbol would it be.

> The commit you can apply cleanly to 12.2, I’m running a build now. Are there other issues with pdfork in 12.2?

pdfork() with threading processes requires 21f749da82e755aafab1276 and the
followup cbdec8db18b533f6d7be.  I do not believe any of this is in 12.3,
and definitely not in 12.2.



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