commit 8e31cafb268938729a1314806a924d73fb1991c5
Author: Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Dec 21 13:37:19 2016 +0100
Clear list of acquired robust mutexes in the child process after forking.
Robust mutexes acquired at the time of a call to fork() do not remain
acquired by the forked child process. We have to clear the list of
acquired robust mutexes before registering this list with the kernel;
otherwise, if some of the robust mutexes are process-shared, the parent
process can alter the child's robust mutex list, which can lead to
deadlocks or even modification of memory that may not be occupied by a
mutex anymore.
[BZ #19402]
* sysdeps/nptl/fork.c (__libc_fork): Clear list of acquired robust
mutexes.
Index: glibc-2.17-c758a686/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fork.c
===================================================================
--- glibc-2.17-c758a686.orig/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fork.c
+++ glibc-2.17-c758a686/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fork.c
@@ -161,12 +161,20 @@ __libc_fork (void)
#endif
#ifdef __NR_set_robust_list
- /* Initialize the robust mutex list which has been reset during
- the fork. We do not check for errors since if it fails here
- it failed at process start as well and noone could have used
- robust mutexes. We also do not have to set
- self->robust_head.futex_offset since we inherit the correct
- value from the parent. */
+ /* Initialize the robust mutex list setting in the kernel which has
+ been reset during the fork. We do not check for errors because if
+ it fails here, it must have failed at process startup as well and
+ nobody could have used robust mutexes.
+ Before we do that, we have to clear the list of robust mutexes
+ because we do not inherit ownership of mutexes from the parent.
+ We do not have to set self->robust_head.futex_offset since we do
+ inherit the correct value from the parent. We do not need to clear
+ the pending operation because it must have been zero when fork was
+ called. */
+# ifdef __PTHREAD_MUTEX_HAVE_PREV
+ self->robust_prev = &self->robust_head;
+# endif
+ self->robust_head.list = &self->robust_head;
# ifdef SHARED
if (__builtin_expect (__libc_pthread_functions_init, 0))
PTHFCT_CALL (ptr_set_robust, (self));