[PATCH] um: fix os_idle_sleep() to not hang

[Anton Ivanov]

On 22/01/2021 20:40, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
> 
> Changing os_idle_sleep() to use pause() (I accidentally described
> it as an empty select() in the commit log because I had changed it
> from that to pause() in a later revision) exposed a race condition
> in the idle code. The following can happen:
> 
>   timer_settime(0, 0, {it_interval={tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=0}, it_value={tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=624017}}, NULL) = 0
>   ...
>   <SIGALRM is delivered but we're already on the way to idle>
>   pause()
> 
> and we now hang forever. This was previously possible as well, but
> it could never cause UML to hang for more than a second since we
> could only sleep for that much, so at most you'd notice a "hiccup"
> in the UML. Obviously, any sort of external interrupt also "saves"
> it and interrupts pause().
> 
> Fix this by properly handling the race, rather than papering over
> it again:
> 
>   - first, block SIGALRM, and obtain the old signal set
>   - check the timer
>   - suspend, waiting for any signal out of the old set, if, and only
>     if, the timer will fire in the future
>   - restore the old signal mask
> 
> This ensures race-free operation: as it's blocked, the signal won't
> be delivered while we're looking at the timer even if it were to be
> triggered right _after_ we've returned from timer_gettime() with a
> non-zero value (telling us the timer will trigger). Thus, despite
> getting to sigsuspend() because timer_gettime() told us we're still
> waiting, we'll not hang because sigsuspend() will return immediately
> due to the pending signal.
> 
> Fixes: 49da38a3ef33 ("um: Simplify os_idle_sleep() and sleep longer")
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
> ---
>   arch/um/os-Linux/time.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
> index a61cbf73a179..6c5041c5560b 100644
> --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
> +++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c
> @@ -104,5 +104,18 @@ long long os_nsecs(void)
>    */
>   void os_idle_sleep(void)
>   {
> -	pause();
> +	struct itimerspec its;
> +	sigset_t set, old;
> +
> +	/* block SIGALRM while we analyze the timer state */
> +	sigemptyset(&set);
> +	sigaddset(&set, SIGALRM);
> +	sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &set, &old);
> +
> +	/* check the timer, and if it'll fire then wait for it */
> +	timer_gettime(event_high_res_timer, &its);
> +	if (its.it_value.tv_sec || its.it_value.tv_nsec)
> +		sigsuspend(&old);
> +	/* either way, restore the signal mask */
> +	sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL);
>   }
> 

Acked-By: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov at cambridgegreys.com>

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