Re: [PATCH v5] x86: Add a testcase for BZ #29863

["H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 6:39 AM Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 1:30 PM H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When a thread is updating the memory area of memcmp and another thread
> > is doing memcmp, the memcmp return value is undefined.  Add a testcase
> > to verify that memcmp won't segfault in this case.
> > ---
> >  sysdeps/x86/Makefile          |   8 +++
> >  sysdeps/x86/tst-memcmp-race.c | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 114 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 sysdeps/x86/tst-memcmp-race.c
> >
> > diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/Makefile b/sysdeps/x86/Makefile
> > index 56fd5fc805..c3f05a06ab 100644
> > --- a/sysdeps/x86/Makefile
> > +++ b/sysdeps/x86/Makefile
> > @@ -257,3 +257,11 @@ tests += \
> >  tests-static += \
> >    tst-sysconf-cache-linesize-static
> >  endif
> > +
> > +ifeq ($(subdir),nptl)
> > +tests += \
> > +  tst-memcmp-race \
> > +# tests
> > +
> > +CFLAGS-tst-memcmp-race.c += -O0
> > +endif
> > diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/tst-memcmp-race.c b/sysdeps/x86/tst-memcmp-race.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..eefa9e43c4
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/sysdeps/x86/tst-memcmp-race.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
> > +/* Test case for memcmp with race condition.
> > +   Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > +   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
> > +
> > +   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > +   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> > +   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> > +   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> > +
> > +   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > +   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > +   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
> > +   Lesser General Public License for more details.
> > +
> > +   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
> > +   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
> > +   <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
> > +
> > +/* Verify that there is no segfault when one thread is updating the
> > +   memory block of memcmp and the other thread is doing memcmp.  */
> > +
> > +#define TEST_MAIN
> > +#define TEST_NAME "memcmp"
> > +
> > +#include <stdio.h>
> > +#include <stdint.h>
> > +#include <string.h>
> > +#include <string/test-string.h>
> > +#include <support/xthread.h>
> > +
> > +#define        NUM_THREADS     2
> > +#define        LOOP1           10000
> > +#define        LOOP2           1000000
> > +
> > +typedef int (*proto_t) (const void *, const void *, size_t);
> > +
> > +IMPL (memcmp, 1)
> > +
> > +struct arg
> > +{
> > +  proto_t func;
> > +  size_t len;
> > +  int i;
> > +};
> > +
> > +static void *
> > +childThread (void *tArgs)
> > +{
> > +  struct arg *a = (struct arg *) tArgs;
> > +  int i;
> > +
> > +  if (0 == a->i % 2)
> > +    {
> > +      for (i = 0; i < LOOP1; i++)
> > +       {
> > +         int result = a->func (buf1, buf2, a->len);
>
> So the test can catch more subtle errors can we test
> with memcmp args at begining and end of a page.
>
> i.e buf1/buf2 and (buf1 + page_size - a->len)/(buf2 + page_size - a->len).

I'd like to keep it as simple as possible to cover this
particular race condition.  Make it more complex may
not provide additional coverage for race conditions.

>
> > +         printf ("i = %d : result = %d\n", i, result);
> > +       }
> > +    }
> > +  else
> > +    {
> > +      size_t offset = a->len > 16 ? a->len - 16 : 1;
> > +      for (i = 0; i < LOOP2; i++)
> > +       buf1[offset] = i & 1;
> > +    }
> > +
> > +  return NULL;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void
> > +do_one_test (proto_t func, size_t len)
> > +{
> > +  int i;
> > +  pthread_t threads[NUM_THREADS];
> > +  struct arg a[NUM_THREADS];
> > +
> > +  for (i = 0; i < NUM_THREADS; ++i)
> > +    {
> > +      a[i].func = func;
> > +      a[i].len = len;
> > +      a[i].i = i;
> > +      threads[i] = xpthread_create (NULL, childThread, (void *)&a[i]);
> > +    }
> > +
> > +  for (i = 0; i < NUM_THREADS; ++i)
> > +    xpthread_join (threads[i]);
> > +}
> > +
> > +int
> > +test_main (void)
> > +{
> > +  test_init ();
> > +
> > +  memset (buf1, 1, page_size);
> > +  memset (buf2, 1, page_size);
> > +
> > +  for (size_t i = 0; i <= 11; i++)
> > +    {
> > +      FOR_EACH_IMPL (impl, 0)
> > +       do_one_test ((proto_t) impl->fn, (1 << i) + 1);
> can you also test 2^i - 1.

Will add it.

> > +    }
> > +
> > +  return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +#include <support/test-driver.c>
> > --
> > 2.38.1
> >
>
> Can you move this to the string directory (so we run this on all
> arch) and add corresponding tests for memcmpeq/wmemcmp.

I can move it to nptl since it is a threaded test.  I will take a look
at memcmpeq and wmemcmp.

-- 
H.J.