Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 3/7] util: make virSetUIDGID async-signal-safe

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964358 POSIX states that multi-threaded apps should not use functions that are not async-signal-safe between fork and exec, yet we were using getpwuid_r and initgroups. Although rare, it is possible to hit deadlock in the child, when it tries to grab a mutex that was already held by another thread in the parent. I actually hit this deadlock when testing multiple domains being started in parallel with a command hook, with the following backtrace in the child: Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fd56bbf2700 (LWP 3212)): #0 __lll_lock_wait () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/lowlevellock.S:136 #1 0x00007fd5761e7388 in _L_lock_854 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 #2 0x00007fd5761e7257 in __pthread_mutex_lock (mutex=0x7fd56be00360) at pthread_mutex_lock.c:61 #3 0x00007fd56bbf9fc5 in _nss_files_getpwuid_r (uid=0, result=0x7fd56bbf0c70, buffer=0x7fd55c2a65f0 "", buflen=1024, errnop=0x7fd56bbf25b8) at nss_files/files-pwd.c:40 #4 0x00007fd575aeff1d in __getpwuid_r (uid=0, resbuf=0x7fd56bbf0c70, buffer=0x7fd55c2a65f0 "", buflen=1024, result=0x7fd56bbf0cb0) at ../nss/getXXbyYY_r.c:253 #5 0x00007fd578aebafc in virSetUIDGID (uid=0, gid=0) at util/virutil.c:1031 #6 0x00007fd578aebf43 in virSetUIDGIDWithCaps (uid=0, gid=0, capBits=0, clearExistingCaps=true) at util/virutil.c:1388 #7 0x00007fd578a9a20b in virExec (cmd=0x7fd55c231f10) at util/vircommand.c:654 #8 0x00007fd578a9dfa2 in virCommandRunAsync (cmd=0x7fd55c231f10, pid=0x0) at util/vircommand.c:2247 #9 0x00007fd578a9d74e in virCommandRun (cmd=0x7fd55c231f10, exitstatus=0x0) at util/vircommand.c:2100 #10 0x00007fd56326fde5 in qemuProcessStart (conn=0x7fd53c000df0, driver=0x7fd55c0dc4f0, vm=0x7fd54800b100, migrateFrom=0x0, stdin_fd=-1, stdin_path=0x0, snapshot=0x0, vmop=VIR_NETDEV_VPORT_PROFILE_OP_CREATE, flags=1) at qemu/qemu_process.c:3694 ... The solution is to split the work of getpwuid_r/initgroups into the unsafe portions (getgrouplist, called pre-fork) and safe portions (setgroups, called post-fork). * src/util/virutil.h (virSetUIDGID, virSetUIDGIDWithCaps): Adjust signature. * src/util/virutil.c (virSetUIDGID): Add parameters. (virSetUIDGIDWithCaps): Adjust clients. * src/util/vircommand.c (virExec): Likewise. * src/util/virfile.c (virFileAccessibleAs, virFileOpenForked) (virDirCreate): Likewise. * src/security/security_dac.c (virSecurityDACSetProcessLabel): Likewise. * src/lxc/lxc_container.c (lxcContainerSetID): Likewise. * configure.ac (AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE): Check for setgroups, not initgroups. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt; (cherry picked from commit ee777e994927ed5f2d427fbc5a53cbe8b5969bda) Conflicts: src/lxc/lxc_container.c - did not use setUIDGID before 1.1.0 src/util/virutil.c - oom handling changes not backported; no virSetUIDGIDWithCaps src/util/virfile.c - functions still lived in virutil.c this far back configure.ac - context with previous commit src/util/command.c - no UID/GID handling in vircommand.c... src/storage/storage_backend.c - ...so do it in the one hook user instead