From 19eb13b9a4cf2f787f60b6e2a6d26a6cd7d3ffd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:04:36 -0500 Subject: race condition fix: block all signals before decrementing thread count the existence of a (kernelspace) thread must never have observable effects after the thread count is decremented. if signals are not blocked, it could end up handling the signal for rsyscall and contributing towards the count of threads which have changed ids, causing a thread to be missed. this could lead to one thread retaining unwanted privilege level. this change may also address other subtle race conditions in application code that uses signals. --- src/thread/x86_64/__unmapself.s | 13 ------------- 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/thread/x86_64') diff --git a/src/thread/x86_64/__unmapself.s b/src/thread/x86_64/__unmapself.s index 59092eaa..d36257d0 100644 --- a/src/thread/x86_64/__unmapself.s +++ b/src/thread/x86_64/__unmapself.s @@ -3,19 +3,6 @@ .global __unmapself .type __unmapself,%function __unmapself: - call 1f /* glibc ABI compat */ - .long -1 - .long -1 -1: push %rsi /* save arg2 for munmap */ - push %rdx /* save arg3 for munmap */ - mov %rdi,%rsi /* rt_sigprocmask() args: move arg1 to rsi */ - xor %rdi,%rdi - xor %rdx,%rdx - movq $8,%r10 - movl $14,%eax /* __NR_rt_sigprocmask */ - syscall /* call rt_sigprocmask(0,arg1,0,8) */ - pop %rsi /* munmap() args: reload from stack */ - pop %rdi movl $11,%eax /* __NR_munmap */ syscall /* munmap(arg2,arg3) */ xor %rdi,%rdi /* exit() args: always return success */ -- cgit v1.2.1