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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-04-14 09:17:02 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-04-14 09:17:02 +0200
commit29d794863cd6e03115d3670707cc873a9965ba92 (patch)
treef5d714f3857f3c2f2468c9f9977fcefc2be75cfb /manual/memory.texi
parentb49ab5f4503f36dcbf43f821f817da66b2931fe6 (diff)
malloc: Run fork handler as late as possible [BZ #19431]
Previously, a thread M invoking fork would acquire locks in this order: (M1) malloc arena locks (in the registered fork handler) (M2) libio list lock A thread F invoking flush (NULL) would acquire locks in this order: (F1) libio list lock (F2) individual _IO_FILE locks A thread G running getdelim would use this order: (G1) _IO_FILE lock (G2) malloc arena lock After executing (M1), (F1), (G1), none of the threads can make progress. This commit changes the fork lock order to: (M'1) libio list lock (M'2) malloc arena locks It explicitly encodes the lock order in the implementations of fork, and does not rely on the registration order, thus avoiding the deadlock.
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diff --git a/manual/memory.texi b/manual/memory.texi
index 3d99147592..a3ecc0df7c 100644
--- a/manual/memory.texi
+++ b/manual/memory.texi
@@ -1051,14 +1051,6 @@ systems that do not support @w{ISO C11}.
@c _dl_addr_inside_object ok
@c determine_info ok
@c __rtld_lock_unlock_recursive (dl_load_lock) @aculock
-@c thread_atfork @asulock @aculock @acsfd @acsmem
-@c __register_atfork @asulock @aculock @acsfd @acsmem
-@c lll_lock (__fork_lock) @asulock @aculock
-@c fork_handler_alloc @asulock @aculock @acsfd @acsmem
-@c calloc dup @asulock @aculock @acsfd @acsmem
-@c __linkin_atfork ok
-@c catomic_compare_and_exchange_bool_acq ok
-@c lll_unlock (__fork_lock) @aculock
@c *_environ @mtsenv
@c next_env_entry ok
@c strcspn dup ok