Another release, another attempt to remove the global thread list.
But this time, let's admit that it's not going away. We can switch to using
a read/write lock for the global thread list, and to aborting rather than
quietly returning ESRCH if we're given an invalid pthread_t.
This change affects pthread_detach, pthread_getcpuclockid,
pthread_getschedparam/pthread_setschedparam, pthread_join, and pthread_kill:
instead of returning ESRCH when passed an invalid pthread_t, if you're
targeting O or above, they'll abort with the message "attempt to use
invalid pthread_t".
Note that this doesn't change behavior as much as you might think: the old
lookup only held the global thread list lock for the duration of the lookup,
so there was still a race between that and the dereference in the caller,
given that callers actually need the tid to pass to some syscall or other,
and sometimes update fields in the pthread_internal_t struct too.
(This patch replaces such users with calls to pthread_gettid_np, which
at least makes the TOCTOU window smaller.)
We can't check thread->tid against 0 to see whether a pthread_t is still
valid because a dead thread gets its thread struct unmapped along with its
stack, so the dereference isn't safe.
Taking the affected functions one by one:
* pthread_getcpuclockid and pthread_getschedparam/pthread_setschedparam
should be fine. Unsafe calls to those seem highly unlikely.
* Unsafe pthread_detach callers probably want to switch to
pthread_attr_setdetachstate instead, or using
pthread_detach(pthread_self()) from the new thread's start routine
rather than doing the detach in the parent.
* pthread_join calls should be safe anyway, because a joinable thread
won't actually exit and unmap until it's joined. If you're joining an
unjoinable thread, the fix is to stop marking it detached. If you're
joining an already-joined thread, you need to rethink your design.
* Unsafe pthread_kill calls aren't portably fixable. (And are obviously
inherently non-portable as-is.) The best alternative on Android is to
use pthread_gettid_np at some point that you know the thread to be
alive, and then call kill/tgkill directly.
That's still not completely safe because if you're too late, the tid
may have been reused, but then your code is inherently unsafe anyway.
Bug: http://b/19636317
Test: ran tests
Change-Id: I0372c4428e8a7f1c3af5c9334f5d9c25f2c73f21
Since removing the global thread is hard, let's take the different
groups of functions individually.
The existing code was racy anyway, because the thread might still be
on the list but have exited (leaving tid == 0).
Bug: http://b/19636317
Test: ran tests
Change-Id: Icc0986ff124d5f9b8a653edf718c549d1563973b
Another release, another attempt to fix this bug.
This change affects pthread_detach, pthread_getcpuclockid,
pthread_getschedparam/pthread_setschedparam, pthread_join, and pthread_kill:
instead of returning ESRCH when passed an invalid pthread_t, they'll now SEGV.
Note that this doesn't change behavior as much as you might think: the old
lookup only held the global thread list lock for the duration of the lookup,
so there was still a race between that and the dereference in the caller,
given that callers actually need the tid to pass to some syscall or other,
and sometimes update fields in the pthread_internal_t struct too.
We can't check thread->tid against 0 to see whether a pthread_t is still
valid because a dead thread gets its thread struct unmapped along with its
stack, so the dereference isn't safe.
Taking the affected functions one by one:
* pthread_getcpuclockid and pthread_getschedparam/pthread_setschedparam
should be fine. Unsafe calls to those seem highly unlikely.
* Unsafe pthread_detach callers probably want to switch to
pthread_attr_setdetachstate instead, or using pthread_detach(pthread_self())
from the new thread's start routine rather than doing the detach in the
parent.
* pthread_join calls should be safe anyway, because a joinable thread won't
actually exit and unmap until it's joined. If you're joining an
unjoinable thread, the fix is to stop marking it detached. If you're
joining an already-joined thread, you need to rethink your design.
* Unsafe pthread_kill calls aren't portably fixable. (And are obviously
inherently non-portable as-is.) The best alternative on Android is to
use pthread_gettid_np at some point that you know the thread to be alive,
and then call kill/tgkill directly. That's still not completely safe
because if you're too late, the tid may have been reused, but then your
code is inherently unsafe anyway.
If we find too much code is still broken, we can come back and disable
the global thread list lookups for anything targeting >= O and then have
another go at really removing this in P...
Bug: http://b/19636317
Test: N6P boots, bionic tests pass
Change-Id: Ia92641212f509344b99ee2a9bfab5383147fcba6
As glibc/netbsd don't protect access to thread struct members by a global
lock, we don't want to do it either. This change reduces the
responsibility of g_thread_list_lock to only protect g_thread_list.
Bug: 19636317
Change-Id: I897890710653dac165d8fa4452c7ecf74abdbf2b
The x86_64 build was failing because clone.S had a call to __thread_entry which
was being added to a different intermediate .a on the way to making libc.so,
and the linker couldn't guarantee statically that such a relocation would be
possible.
ld: error: out/target/product/generic_x86_64/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libc_common_intermediates/libc_common.a(clone.o): requires dynamic R_X86_64_PC32 reloc against '__thread_entry' which may overflow at runtime; recompile with -fPIC
This patch addresses that by ensuring that the caller and callee end up in the
same intermediate .a. While I'm here, I've tried to clean up some of the mess
that led to this situation too. In particular, this removes libc/private/ from
the default include path (except for the DNS code), and splits out the DNS
code into its own library (since it's a weird special case of upstream NetBSD
code that's diverged so heavily it's unlikely ever to get back in sync).
There's more cleanup of the DNS situation possible, but this is definitely a
step in the right direction, and it's more than enough to get x86_64 building
cleanly.
Change-Id: I00425a7245b7a2573df16cc38798187d0729e7c4
imgtec pointed out that pthread_kill(3) was broken, but most of the
other functions that ought to return ESRCH for invalid/exited threads
were equally broken.
Change-Id: I96347f6195549aee0c72dc39063e6c5d06d2e01f
