fix potential race condition in detached threads
after the thread unmaps its own stack/thread structure, the kernel,
performing child tid clear and futex wake, could clobber a new mapping
made at the same location as the just-removed thread's tid field.
disable kernel clearing of child tid to prevent this.
diff --git a/src/thread/pthread_create.c b/src/thread/pthread_create.c
index 48290d3..ae2f9e4 100644
--- a/src/thread/pthread_create.c
+++ b/src/thread/pthread_create.c
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
if (!n) exit(0);
if (self->detached && self->map_base) {
+ if (self->detached == 2)
+ __syscall(SYS_set_tid_address, 0);
__syscall(SYS_rt_sigprocmask, SIG_BLOCK, (uint64_t[]){-1},0,8);
__unmapself(self->map_base, self->map_size);
}
@@ -87,6 +89,7 @@
size_t guard = DEFAULT_GUARD_SIZE;
struct pthread *self = pthread_self(), *new;
unsigned char *map, *stack, *tsd;
+ unsigned flags = 0x7d8f00;
if (!self) return ENOSYS;
if (!libc.threaded) {
@@ -121,7 +124,10 @@
new->start_arg = arg;
new->self = new;
new->tsd = (void *)tsd;
- if (attr) new->detached = attr->_a_detach;
+ if (attr && attr->_a_detach) {
+ new->detached = 1;
+ flags -= 0x200000;
+ }
new->unblock_cancel = self->cancel;
new->canary = self->canary ^ (uintptr_t)&new;
stack = (void *)new;
@@ -129,7 +135,7 @@
__synccall_lock();
a_inc(&libc.threads_minus_1);
- ret = __clone(start, stack, 0x7d8f00, new, &new->tid, new, &new->tid);
+ ret = __clone(start, stack, flags, new, &new->tid, new, &new->tid);
__synccall_unlock();