For handling guest POSIX timers, we currently use an array
g_posix_timers[], whose entries are a host timer_t value, or 0 for
"this slot is unused". When the guest calls the timer_create syscall
we look through the array for a slot containing 0, and use that for
the new timer.
This scheme assumes that host timer_t values can never be zero. This
is unfortunately not a valid assumption -- for some host libc
versions, timer_t values are simply indexes starting at 0. When
using this kind of host libc, the effect is that the first and second
timers end up sharing a slot, and so when the guest tries to operate
on the first timer it changes the second timer instead.
Rework the timer allocation code, so that:
* the 'slot in use' indication uses a separate array from the
host timer_t array
* we grab the free slot atomically, to avoid races when multiple
threads call timer_create simultaneously
* releasing an allocated slot is abstracted out into a new
free_host_timer_slot() function called in the correct places
This fixes:
* problems on hosts where timer_t 0 is valid
* the FIXME in next_free_host_timer() about locking
* bugs in the error paths in timer_create where we forgot to release
the slot we grabbed, or forgot to free the host timer
Reported-by: Jon Alduan <jon.alduan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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linux-user/syscall.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)