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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2016-04-12 16:49:30 +0100
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2016-04-12 16:53:40 +0100
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Fix signal handler/event-loop races
GDB's core signal handling suffers from a classical signal handler / mainline code race: int gdb_do_one_event (void) { ... /* First let's see if there are any asynchronous signal handlers that are ready. These would be the result of invoking any of the signal handlers. */ if (invoke_async_signal_handlers ()) return 1; ... /* Block waiting for a new event. (...). */ if (gdb_wait_for_event (1) < 0) return -1; ... } If a signal is delivered while gdb is blocked in the poll/select inside gdb_wait_for_event, then the select/poll breaks with EINTR, we'll loop back around and call invoke_async_signal_handlers. However, if the signal handler runs between invoke_async_signal_handlers and gdb_wait_for_event, gdb_wait_for_event will block, until the next unrelated event... The fix is to a struct serial_event, and register it in the set of files that select/poll in gdb_wait_for_event waits on. The signal handlers that defer work to invoke_async_signal_handlers call mark_async_signal_handler, which is adjusted to also set the new serial event in addition to setting a flag, and is thus now is garanteed to immediately unblock the next gdb_select/poll call, up until invoke_async_signal_handlers is called and the event is cleared. gdb/ChangeLog: 2016-04-12 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * event-loop.c: Include "ser-event.h". (async_signal_handlers_serial_event): New global. (async_signals_handler, initialize_async_signal_handlers): New functions. (mark_async_signal_handler): Set async_signal_handlers_serial_event. (invoke_async_signal_handlers): Clear async_signal_handlers_serial_event. * event-top.c (async_init_signals): Call initialize_async_signal_handlers.
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diff --git a/gdb/event-loop.h b/gdb/event-loop.h
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--- a/gdb/event-loop.h
+++ b/gdb/event-loop.h
@@ -143,3 +143,5 @@ extern void mark_async_event_handler (struct async_event_handler *handler);
/* Mark the handler (ASYNC_HANDLER_PTR) as NOT ready. */
extern void clear_async_event_handler (struct async_event_handler *handler);
+
+extern void initialize_async_signal_handlers (void);