Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/28] linux-user: fix race between signals and syscalls

[Peter Maydell]

Ping?

I have a second series based on top of this which is shaping up
nicely and it would be good to get this lot into master before
posting the second set...

thanks
-- PMM

On 12 May 2016 at 18:47, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> This patch series is an updated version of the original series
> sent by Timothy Baldwin in autumn of last year
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-09/msg01388.html).
> I have attempted to address various code review comments made on that
> original patchset.
>
> Changes v1->v2:
>  * more description in comments and commit messages of what is going on
>  * implement restarting for all guest architectures (tilegx wasn't
>    in the tree when v1 was sent out)
>  * reordered the patches in the series a bit; in particular we add
>    support for restarting syscalls to all targets and so we don't
>    need the TARGET_USE_ERESTARTSYS define
>  * fixed a bug in the Alpha restart code where we were incorrectly
>    treating env->ir[IR_PV] as the PC, not env->pc
>  * restrict scope of patchset to just providing and using the
>    safe_syscall mechanism. (I plan to upstream the other race fixes
>    in the second half of Timothy's patchset separately once this lot
>    are in.)
>  * avoid per-architecture if-ladders in configure and C code by
>    creating a linux-user/host/$(HOSTARCH) type directory structure
>    so the makefiles can pull in the right files for the host
>    automatically
>  * added patches to use safe_syscall for futex, select and pselect
>    (in particular fixing futex() allows binaries that use the Boehm
>    garbage collector, like the Mono runtime, to work)
>  * include a patch which sets r14 on exit from microblaze syscalls,
>    which I think clarifies how that architecture does things
>    (though it is not ABI-wise strictly required)
>  * fixed bug in wrapping of waitid syscall -- it has five args, not four
>  * switched safe_syscall() to use a "return -1 and set errno"
>    convention for failure; this matches syscall(), and seemed to
>    me to be more intuitive for switching code around and for when
>    there's a mix of code paths using safe_syscall() and directly
>    calling libc functions (though it does mean that we push error
>    numbers into errno and then fish them out again later)
>  * added the magic GNU-stack rune that avoids incorrectly tainting
>    our whole binary as "needs an executable stack" when an asm
>    file is linked into it
>
> Notes:
>  * safe_syscall is supported for all guest architectures, but
>    only the x86_64 host architecture; adding the asm fragment
>    for our other hosts should be straightforward
>  * there are a fair number of other system calls that should be
>    using safe_syscall too
> In both cases I thought it was better to avoid making this patchset
> any larger or later; we can easily do these in later patches if
> the general concept and mechanism has made it into master.
>
>
> I've tested mostly by running the LTP test suite for 32-bit ARM
> guests; this patchset neither improves nor worsens our pass rate.
>
> I think the fixing of select/pselect ought to deal with hangs when
> running cmake (https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/955379), but
> I have no reliable reproducer for that bug so can't say for sure.
> The "Mono hangs due to it using Boehm GC" bug is
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/530000
> and that is definitely fixed by this patchset.
>
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>
> Peter Maydell (5):
>   linux-user: Consistently return host errnos from do_openat()
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for tilegx targets
>   linux-user: Set r14 on exit from microblaze syscall
>   linux-user: Use safe_syscall for pselect, select syscalls
>   linux-user: Use safe_syscall for futex syscall
>
> Timothy E Baldwin (23):
>   linux-user: Check array bounds in errno conversion
>   linux-user: Reindent signal handling
>   linux-user: Define TARGET_ERESTART* errno values
>   linux-user: Renumber TARGET_QEMU_ESIGRETURN, make it not arch-specific
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for x86 targets
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for ARM targets
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for MIPS targets
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for PPC targets
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for SPARC targets
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for SH4 targets
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for Alpha targets
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for UniCore32 targets
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for OpenRISC targets
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for M68K targets
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for S390 targets
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for CRIS targets
>   linux-user: Support for restarting system calls for Microblaze targets
>   linux-user: Add debug code to exercise restarting system calls
>   linux-user: Provide safe_syscall for fixing races between signals and
>     syscalls
>   linux-user: Use safe_syscall for read and write system calls
>   linux-user: Use safe_syscall for open and openat system calls
>   linux-user: Use safe_syscall for wait system calls
>   linux-user: Use safe_syscall for execve syscall
>
>  Makefile.target                           |    4 +-
>  linux-user/Makefile.objs                  |    3 +-
>  linux-user/alpha/target_signal.h          |    1 +
>  linux-user/arm/target_signal.h            |    1 +
>  linux-user/cris/target_signal.h           |    1 +
>  linux-user/errno_defs.h                   |   17 +
>  linux-user/host/x86_64/hostdep.h          |   38 +
>  linux-user/host/x86_64/safe-syscall.inc.S |   81 ++
>  linux-user/m68k/target_signal.h           |    1 +
>  linux-user/main.c                         |  225 ++--
>  linux-user/microblaze/target_signal.h     |    1 +
>  linux-user/mips/target_signal.h           |    1 +
>  linux-user/mips/target_syscall.h          |    4 -
>  linux-user/mips64/target_signal.h         |    1 +
>  linux-user/mips64/target_syscall.h        |    4 -
>  linux-user/openrisc/target_signal.h       |    1 +
>  linux-user/ppc/target_signal.h            |    1 +
>  linux-user/ppc/target_syscall.h           |    2 -
>  linux-user/qemu.h                         |  127 ++-
>  linux-user/s390x/target_signal.h          |    1 +
>  linux-user/safe-syscall.S                 |   30 +
>  linux-user/sh4/target_signal.h            |    1 +
>  linux-user/signal.c                       | 1610 
> +++++++++++++++--------------
>  linux-user/sparc/target_signal.h          |    1 +
>  linux-user/sparc64/target_signal.h        |    1 +
>  linux-user/syscall.c                      |  188 +++-
>  linux-user/tilegx/target_signal.h         |    1 +
>  27 files changed, 1428 insertions(+), 919 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 linux-user/host/x86_64/hostdep.h
>  create mode 100644 linux-user/host/x86_64/safe-syscall.inc.S
>  create mode 100644 linux-user/safe-syscall.S
>
> --
> 1.9.1