Bug 28607

Summary: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
Product: glibc Reporter: Gibeom Gwon <gb.gwon>
Component: nptlAssignee: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: drepper.fsp, fryasu, fweimer
Priority: P2 Flags: fweimer: security-
Version: 2.33   
Target Milestone: 2.35   
Host: Target:
Build: Last reconfirmed: 2021-11-18 00:00:00
Attachments: signal.c

Description Gibeom Gwon 2021-11-18 19:26:18 UTC
Created attachment 13797 [details]
signal.c

I am experiencing strange behavior when using pthread with signals.
If I set the signal mask with pthread_sigmask() in the thread function and the process has pending signal when thread is exiting, signal handler executed in thread.

sleep.c
-------
#include <unistd.h>

int main() {
	sleep(50);
	return 0;
}

Compile sleep.c and signal.c. Run `signal` and hit Ctrl + C in the middle of running.

Result is like this.

$ ./signal
main thread: 139882152073024
child thread: 139882152068672
worker...
worker...
worker...
^Csigint: 139882152073024
worker...
worker...
worker...
worker...
worker...
worker...
worker...
thread close
sigchld: 139882152068672
Comment 1 Florian Weimer 2021-11-18 19:31:35 UTC
The signal mask initialization in start_thread happens in the wrong place.  I have a fix.
Comment 2 Florian Weimer 2021-11-18 20:04:00 UTC
Patch posted: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-November/133272.html
Comment 3 Andreas Schwab 2021-11-22 08:48:13 UTC
*** Bug 28612 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Florian Weimer 2021-11-24 08:21:17 UTC
Fixed for glibc 2.35 via:

commit e186fc5a31e46f2cbf5ea1a75223b4412907f3d8
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 24 08:59:54 2021 +0100

    nptl: Do not set signal mask on second setjmp return [BZ #28607]
    
    __libc_signal_restore_set was in the wrong place: It also ran
    when setjmp returned the second time (after pthread_exit or
    pthread_cancel).  This is observable with blocked pending
    signals during thread exit.
    
    Fixes commit b3cae39dcbfa2432b3f3aa28854d8ac57f0de1b8
    ("nptl: Start new threads with all signals blocked [BZ #25098]").
    
    Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>