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* [2.23 COMMITTED] Fix tst-cancel17/tst-cancelx17, which sometimes segfaults while exiting.
@ 2016-01-01  0:00 Aurelien Jarno
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From: Aurelien Jarno @ 2016-01-01  0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: libc-stable; +Cc: Stefan Liebler

From: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

The testcase tst-cancel[x]17 ends sometimes with a segmentation fault.
This happens in one of 10000 cases. Then the real testcase has already
exited with success and returned from do_test(). The segmentation fault
occurs after returning from main in _dl_fini().

In those cases, the aio_read(&a) was not canceled because the read
request was already in progress. In the meanwhile aio_write(ap) wrote
something to the pipe and the read request is able to read the
requested byte.
The read request hasn't finished before returning from do_test().
After it finishes, it writes the return value and error code from the
read syscall to the struct aiocb a, which lies on the stack of do_test.
The stack of the subsequent function call of _dl_fini or _dl_sort_fini,
which is inlined in _dl_fini is corrupted.

In case of S390, it reads a zero and decrements it by 1:
unsigned int k = nmaps - 1;
struct link_map **runp = maps[k]->l_initfini;
The load from unmapped memory leads to the segmentation fault.
The stack corruption also happens on other architectures.
I saw them e.g. on x86 and ppc, too.

This patch adds an aio_suspend call to ensure, that the read request
is finished before returning from do_test().

ChangeLog:

	* nptl/tst-cancel17.c (do_test): Wait for finishing aio_read(&a).

(cherry picked from commit b3a810d0d3d5c6ce7ddfb61321cd7971808ca703)
---
 ChangeLog           |  4 ++++
 nptl/tst-cancel17.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0219113..488381c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2016-05-17  Stefan Liebler  <stli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+
+	* nptl/tst-cancel17.c (do_test): Wait for finishing aio_read(&a).
+
 2016-06-27  Aurelien Jarno  <aurelien@aurel32.net>
 
 	* sysdeps/mips/tst-mode-switch-1.c (main): Converted to ...
diff --git a/nptl/tst-cancel17.c b/nptl/tst-cancel17.c
index fb89292..eedd28e 100644
--- a/nptl/tst-cancel17.c
+++ b/nptl/tst-cancel17.c
@@ -333,6 +333,22 @@ do_test (void)
 
   puts ("early cancellation succeeded");
 
+  if (ap == &a2)
+    {
+      /* The aio_read(&a) was not canceled because the read request was
+	 already in progress. In the meanwhile aio_write(ap) wrote something
+	 to the pipe and the read request either has already been finished or
+	 is able to read the requested byte.
+	 Wait for the read request before returning from this function because
+	 the return value and error code from the read syscall will be written
+	 to the struct aiocb a, which lies on the stack of this function.
+	 Otherwise the stack from subsequent function calls - e.g. _dl_fini -
+	 will be corrupted, which can lead to undefined behaviour like a
+	 segmentation fault.  */
+      const struct aiocb *l[1] = { &a };
+      TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (aio_suspend(l, 1, NULL));
+    }
+
   return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.8.1

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