Re: [libvirt] two nasty races
On 05/17/2013 10:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
I found root cause on two nasty races today, but ran out of time to
write the patches until next week.
2. We have a (rare) deadlock due to the use of a non-async-signal-safe
getpwuid_r in between fork and exec.
I was also surprised to learn today that getgid() is required to be
async-signal-safe, but the more powerful getregid() is not. And guess
which one we use :( But I think it is a bug in POSIX, so I filed this:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=699
Also, some good news - we have previously remarked on this list that
strlen() and friends are surprisingly not required to be
async-signal-safe, but we went ahead and used them anyways. Thankfully,
sanity has prevailed, and the next version of POSIX will require them to
be async-signal-safe:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=692
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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