[PATCH] nptl: Use SA_RESTART for SIGCANCEL handler

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Thu Jun 17 12:52:41 GMT 2021


The usage of signals to implementation pthread cancellation is an
implementation detail and should not be visible through cancellation
entrypoints.

However now that pthread_cancel always send the SIGCANCEL, some
entrypoint might be interruptable and return EINTR to the caller
(for instance on sem_wait).

Using SA_RESTART hides this, since the cancellation handler should
either act uppon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation is enable)
or ignore the cancellation internal signal.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu.
---
 nptl/pthread_cancel.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nptl/pthread_cancel.c b/nptl/pthread_cancel.c
index 0698cd2046..cc25ff21f3 100644
--- a/nptl/pthread_cancel.c
+++ b/nptl/pthread_cancel.c
@@ -72,7 +72,11 @@ __pthread_cancel (pthread_t th)
     {
       struct sigaction sa;
       sa.sa_sigaction = sigcancel_handler;
-      sa.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO;
+      /* The signal handle should be non-interruptible to avoid the risk of
+	 spurious EINTR caused by SIGCANCEL sent to process or if
+	 pthread_cancel() is called while cancellation is disabled in the
+	 target thread.  */
+      sa.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO | SA_RESTART;
       __sigemptyset (&sa.sa_mask);
       __libc_sigaction (SIGCANCEL, &sa, NULL);
       atomic_store_relaxed (&init_sigcancel, 1);
-- 
2.30.2



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