[PATCH] uml: fix thread startup race

This fixes a race in the starting of write_sigio_thread.  Previously, some of
the data needed by the thread was initialized after the clone.  If the thread
ran immediately, it would see the uninitialized data, including an empty
pollfds, which would cause it to hang.

We move the data initialization to before the clone, and adjust the error
paths and cleanup accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/sigio.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/sigio.c
index 7604c404c4c2..9ba942947146 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/sigio.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/sigio.c
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ static int write_sigio_pid = -1;
  * the descriptors closed after it is killed.  So, it can't see them change.
  * On the UML side, they are changed under the sigio_lock.
  */
-static int write_sigio_fds[2] = { -1, -1 };
-static int sigio_private[2] = { -1, -1 };
+#define SIGIO_FDS_INIT {-1, -1}
+
+static int write_sigio_fds[2] = SIGIO_FDS_INIT;
+static int sigio_private[2] = SIGIO_FDS_INIT;
 
 struct pollfds {
         struct pollfd *poll;
@@ -270,49 +272,46 @@ void write_sigio_workaround(void)
         /* Did we race? Don't try to optimize this, please, it's not so likely
          * to happen, and no more than once at the boot. */
         if(write_sigio_pid != -1)
-                goto out_unlock;
-
-        write_sigio_pid = run_helper_thread(write_sigio_thread, NULL,
-                                            CLONE_FILES | CLONE_VM, &stack, 0);
+                goto out_free;
 
-        if (write_sigio_pid < 0)
-                goto out_clear;
+        current_poll = ((struct pollfds) { .poll        = p,
+                                           .used        = 1,
+                                           .size        = 1 });
 
         if (write_sigio_irq(l_write_sigio_fds[0]))
-                goto out_kill;
+                goto out_clear_poll;
 
-        /* Success, finally. */
         memcpy(write_sigio_fds, l_write_sigio_fds, sizeof(l_write_sigio_fds));
         memcpy(sigio_private, l_sigio_private, sizeof(l_sigio_private));
 
-        current_poll = ((struct pollfds) { .poll        = p,
-                                           .used        = 1,
-                                           .size        = 1 });
+        write_sigio_pid = run_helper_thread(write_sigio_thread, NULL,
+                                            CLONE_FILES | CLONE_VM, &stack, 0);
 
-        sigio_unlock();
-        return;
+        if (write_sigio_pid < 0)
+                goto out_clear;
 
- out_kill:
-        l_write_sigio_pid = write_sigio_pid;
-        write_sigio_pid = -1;
         sigio_unlock();
-        /* Going to call waitpid, avoid holding the lock. */
-        os_kill_process(l_write_sigio_pid, 1);
-        goto out_free;
+        return;
 
- out_clear:
+out_clear:
         write_sigio_pid = -1;
- out_unlock:
-        sigio_unlock();
- out_free:
+        write_sigio_fds[0] = -1;
+        write_sigio_fds[1] = -1;
+        sigio_private[0] = -1;
+        sigio_private[1] = -1;
+out_clear_poll:
+        current_poll = ((struct pollfds) { .poll        = NULL,
+                                           .size        = 0,
+                                           .used        = 0 });
+out_free:
         kfree(p);
- out_close2:
+        sigio_unlock();
+out_close2:
         close(l_sigio_private[0]);
         close(l_sigio_private[1]);
- out_close1:
+out_close1:
         close(l_write_sigio_fds[0]);
         close(l_write_sigio_fds[1]);
-        return;
 }
 
 void sigio_cleanup(void)