The use after free described in BZ#19951 is due the use of two different
PD fields, 'joinid' and 'cancelhandling', to describe the thread state
and to synchronize the calls of pthread_join, pthread_detach,
pthread_exit, and normal thread exit.
Any state change potentially requires to check for both field
atomically to handle partial state (such as pthread_join() with a
cancellation handler to issue a 'joinstate' field rollback).
This patch uses a different PD member with 4 possible states (JOINABLE,
DETACHED, EXITING, and EXITED) instead of pthread 'tid' field, with
the following logic:
1. On pthread_create the inital state is set either to JOINABLE or
DETACHED depending of the pthread attribute used.
2. On pthread_detach, a CAS is issued on the state. If the CAS
fails it means that thread is already detached (DETACHED) or is
being terminated (EXITING). For former an EINVAL is returned,
while for latter pthread_detach should be reponsible to join the
thread (and deallocate any internal resource).
3. In the exit phase of the wrapper function for the thread start
routine (reached either if the thread function has returned,
pthread_exit has being called, or cancellation handled has been
acted upon) we issue a CAS on state to set to EXITING mode. If the
thread is previously on DETACHED mode the thread itself is
responsible for arranging the deallocation of any resource,
otherwise the thread needs to be joined (detached threads cannot
immediately deallocate themselves).
4. The clear_tid_field on 'clone' call is changed to set the new
'state' field on thread exit (EXITED). This state is only
reached at thread termination.
5. The pthread_join implementation is now simpler: the futex wait
is done directly on thread state and there is no need to reset it
in case of timeout since the state is now set either by
pthread_detach() or by the kernel on process termination.
The race condition on pthread_detach is avoided with only one atomic
operation on PD state: once the mode is set to THREAD_STATE_DETACHED
it is up to thread itself to deallocate its memory (done on the exit
phase at pthread_create()).
Also, the INVALID_NOT_TERMINATED_TD_P is removed since a a negative
tid is not possible and the macro is not used anywhere.
This change trigger an invalid C11 thread tests: it crates a thread,
which detaches itself, and after a timeout the creating thread checks
if the join fails. The issue is once thrd_join() is called the thread
lifetime is not defined.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, aarch64-linux-gnu,
arm-linux-gnueabihf, and powerpc64-linux-gnu.
Due to the extensible nature of the rseq area we can't explictly
initialize fields that are not part of the ABI yet. It was agreed with
upstream that all new fields will be documented as zero initialized by
userspace. Future kernels configured with CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ will
validate the content of all fields during registration.
Replace the explicit field initialization with a memset of the whole
rseq area which will cover fields as they are added to future kernels.
Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Linux 6.13 (662df3e5c3766) added a lightweight way to define guard areas
through madvise syscall. Instead of PROT_NONE the guard region through
mprotect, userland can madvise the same area with a special flag, and
the kernel ensures that accessing the area will trigger a SIGSEGV (as for
PROT_NONE mapping).
The madvise way has the advantage of less kernel memory consumption for
the process page-table (one less VMA per guard area), and slightly less
contention on kernel (also due to the fewer VMA areas being tracked).
The pthread_create allocates a new thread stack in two ways: if a guard
area is set (the default) it allocates the memory range required using
PROT_NONE and then mprotect the usable stack area. Otherwise, if a
guard page is not set it allocates the region with the required flags.
For the MADV_GUARD_INSTALL support, the stack area region is allocated
with required flags and then the guard region is installed. If the
kernel does not support it, the usual way is used instead (and
MADV_GUARD_INSTALL is disabled for future stack creations).
The stack allocation strategy is recorded on the pthread struct, and it
is used in case the guard region needs to be resized. To avoid needing
an extra field, the 'user_stack' is repurposed and renamed to 'stack_mode'.
This patch also adds a proper test for the pthread guard.
I checked on x86_64, aarch64, powerpc64le, and hppa with kernel 6.13.0-rc7.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Move the rseq area to the newly added 'extra TLS' block, this is the
last step in adding support for the rseq extended ABI. The size of the
rseq area is now dynamic and depends on the rseq features reported by
the kernel through the elf auxiliary vector. This will allow
applications to use rseq features past the 32 bytes of the original rseq
ABI as they become available in future kernels.
Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Get the rseq feature size and alignment requirement from the auxiliary
vector for use inside the dynamic loader. Use '__rseq_size' directly to
store the feature size. If the main thread registration fails or is
disabled by tunable, reset the value to 0.
This will be used in the TLS block allocator to compute the size and
alignment of the rseq area block for the extended ABI support.
Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
The __rseq_size value is now the active area of struct rseq
(so 20 initially), not the full struct size including padding
at the end (32 initially).
Update misc/tst-rseq to print some additional diagnostics.
Reviewed-by: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
While working on a patch to add support for the extensible rseq ABI, we
came across an issue where a new 'const' variable would be merged with
the existing '__rseq_size' variable. We tracked this to the use of
'-fmerge-all-constants' which allows the compiler to merge identical
constant variables. This means that all 'const' variables in a compile
unit that are of the same size and are initialized to the same value can
be merged.
In this specific case, on 32 bit systems 'unsigned int' and 'ptrdiff_t'
are both 4 bytes and initialized to 0 which should trigger the merge.
However for reasons we haven't delved into when the attribute 'section
(".data.rel.ro")' is added to the mix, only variables of the same exact
types are merged. As far as we know this behavior is not specified
anywhere and could change with a new compiler version, hence this patch.
Move the definitions of these variables into an assembler file and add
hidden writable aliases for internal use. This has the added bonus of
removing the asm workaround to set the values on rseq registration.
Tested on Debian 12 with GCC 12.2.
Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
And make always supported. The configure option was added on glibc 2.25
and some features require it (such as hwcap mask, huge pages support, and
lock elisition tuning). It also simplifies the build permutations.
Changes from v1:
* Remove glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort changes, it is orthogonal and needs
more discussion.
* Cleanup more code.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Some Linux interfaces never restart after being interrupted by a signal
handler, regardless of the use of SA_RESTART [1]. It means that for
pthread cancellation, if the target thread disables cancellation with
pthread_setcancelstate and calls such interfaces (like poll or select),
it should not see spurious EINTR failures due the internal SIGCANCEL.
However recent changes made pthread_cancel to always sent the internal
signal, regardless of the target thread cancellation status or type.
To fix it, the previous semantic is restored, where the cancel signal
is only sent if the target thread has cancelation enabled in
asynchronous mode.
The cancel state and cancel type is moved back to cancelhandling
and atomic operation are used to synchronize between threads. The
patch essentially revert the following commits:
8c1c0aae20 nptl: Move cancel type out of cancelhandling
2b51742531 nptl: Move cancel state out of cancelhandling
26cfbb7162 nptl: Remove CANCELING_BITMASK
However I changed the atomic operation to follow the internal C11
semantic and removed the MACRO usage, it simplifies a bit the
resulting code (and removes another usage of the old atomic macros).
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, aarch64-linux-gnu,
and powerpc64-linux-gnu.
[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h,
support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and
sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following
obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah. I don't
know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not.
remote: *** 912-#endif
remote: *** 913:
remote: *** 914-
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
...
remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
The relationship between the thread pointer and the rseq area
is made explicit. The constant offset can be used by JIT compilers
to optimize rseq access (e.g., for really fast sched_getcpu).
Extensibility is provided through __rseq_size and __rseq_flags.
(In the future, the kernel could request a different rseq size
via the auxiliary vector.)
Co-Authored-By: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
This tunable allows applications to register the rseq area instead
of glibc.
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
The rseq area is placed directly into struct pthread. rseq
registration failure is not treated as an error, so it is possible
that threads run with inconsistent registration status.
<sys/rseq.h> is not yet installed as a public header.
Co-Authored-By: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
As a result, is not necessary to specify __attribute__ ((nocommon))
on individual definitions.
GCC 10 defaults to -fno-common on all architectures except ARC,
but this change is compatible with older GCC versions and ARC, too.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This mirrors the situation on Hurd. These directories are on
the include search part, so #include <pthreadP.h> works after this
change on both Hurd and nptl.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Now that the thread cancellation type is not accessed concurrently
anymore, it is possible to move it out the cancelhandling.
By removing the cancel state out of the internal thread cancel handling
state there is no need to check if cancelled bit was set in CAS
operation.
It allows simplifing the cancellation wrappers and the
CANCEL_CANCELED_AND_ASYNCHRONOUS is removed.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and aarch64-linux-gnu.
Now that thread cancellation state is not accessed concurrently anymore,
it is possible to move it out the 'cancelhandling'.
The code is also simplified: CANCELLATION_P is replaced with a
internal pthread_testcancel call and the CANCELSTATE_BIT{MASK} is
removed.
With this behavior pthread_setcancelstate does not require to act on
cancellation if cancel type is asynchronous (is already handled either
by pthread_setcanceltype or by the signal handler).
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and aarch64-linux-gnu.
The initialization of the report_events TCB field is now performed
in __tls_init_tp instead of __pthread_initialize_minimal_internal
(in libpthread).
The events interface is difficult to test because GDB stopped using it
in 2015. The td_thr_get_info change to ignore lookup issues is enough
to support GDB with this change.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Permissions of the cached stacks may have to be updated if an object
is loaded that requires executable stacks, so the dynamic loader
needs to know about these cached stacks.
The move of in_flight_stack and stack_cache_actsize is a requirement for
merging __reclaim_stacks into the fork implementation in libc.
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This is an early variant of __tls_init_tp, primarily for initializing
thread-related elements of _rtld_global/GL.
Some existing initialization code not needed for NPTL is moved into
the generic version of this function.
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This is required for GCC versions before 10 which default to -fcommon.
Fixes commit 442e8a40da ("nptl: Move part
of TCB initialization from libpthread to __tls_init_tp").
This initalization should only happen once for the main thread's TCB.
At present, auditors can achieve this by not linking against
libpthread. If libpthread becomes part of libc, doing this
initialization in libc would happen for every audit namespace,
or too late (if it happens from the main libc only). That's why
moving this code into ld.so seems the right thing to do, right after
the TCB initialization.
For !__ASSUME_SET_ROBUST_LIST ports, this also moves the symbol
__set_robust_list_avail into ld.so, as __nptl_set_robust_list_avail.
It also turned into a proper boolean flag.
Inline the __pthread_initialize_pids function because it seems no
longer useful as a separate function.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
TLS_INIT_TP is processor-specific, so it is not a good place to
put thread library initialization code (it would have to be repeated
for all CPUs). Introduce __tls_init_tp as a separate function,
to be called immediately after TLS_INIT_TP. Move the existing
stack list setup code for NPTL to this function.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
