Re: [PATCH v2] signal: Adjust error codes according to restore_user_sigmask()

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 05/24, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 7:11 AM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 05/23, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok, since there has been quite a bit of argument here, I will
> > > backtrack a little bit and maybe it will help us understand what's
> > > happening here.
> > > There are many scenarios being discussed on this thread:
> > > a. State of code before 854a6ed56839a
> >
> > I think everything was correct,
>
> There were 2 things that were wrong:
>
> 1. If an unblocked signal was received, after the ep_poll(), then the
> return status did not indicate that.

Yes,

> This is expected behavior
> according to man page. If this is indeed what is expected then the man
> page should note that signal will be delivered in this case and return
> code will still be 0.
>
> "EINTR
> The call was interrupted by a signal handler before either any of the
> requested events occurred or the timeout expired; see signal(7)."

and what do you think the man page could say?

This is obviously possible for any syscall, and we can't avoid this. A signal
can come right after syscall insn completes. The signal handler will be called
but this won't change $rax, user-space can see return code == 0 or anything else.

And this doesn't differ from the case when the signal comes before syscall returns.

> 2. The restoring of the sigmask is done right in the syscall part and
> not while exiting the syscall and if you get a blocked signal here,
> you will deliver this to userspace.

So I assume that this time you are talking about epoll_pwait() and not epoll_wait()...

And I simply can't understand you. But yes, if the original mask doesn't include
the pending signal it will be delivered while the syscall can return success/timout
or -EFAULT or anything.

This is correct, see above.

> > > b. State after 854a6ed56839a
> >
> > obviously buggy,
>
> Ok, then can you point out what specifically was wrong with
> 854a6ed56839a?

Cough. If nothing else the lost -EINTR?

> And, not how it could be more simple?

Well, I already sent the patch and after that I even showed you the code with the
patch applied. See https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190523143340.GA23070@xxxxxxxxxx/

> > What you are saying looks very confusing to me, I will assume that you
> > meant something like
> >
> >         - a signal SIG_XXX was blocked before sys_epoll_pwait() was called
> >
> >         - sys_epoll_pwait(sigmask) unblocks SIG_XXX according to sigmask
> >
> >         - sys_epoll_pwait() calls do_epoll_wait() which returns success
> >
> >         - SIG_XXX comes after that and it is "never noticed"
> >
> > Yes. Everything is correct. And see my reply to David, SIG_XXX can even
> > come _before_ sys_epoll_pwait() was called.
>
> No, I'm talking about a signal that was not blocked.

OK, see above.

> > > So the question is does the userspace have to know about this signal
> > > or not.
> >
> > If userspace needs to know about SIG_XXX it should not block it, that is all.
>
> What should be the return value if a signal is detected after a fd completed?

Did you mean "if a signal is detected after a ready fd was already found" ?

In this case the return value should report success. But I have already lost,
this all looks irrelevant wrt to fix we need.

> > > What [b] does is to move the signal check closer to the restoration of
> > > the signal.
> >
> > FOR NO REASON, afaics (to simplify, lets forget the problem with the wrong
> > return value you are trying to fix).
>
> As I already pointed out, the restoring of the sigmask is done during
> the syscall and not while exiting the syscall and if you get a blocked
> signal here, you will deliver this to userspace.
>
> > And even if there were ANY reason to do this, note that (with or without this
> > fix) the signal_pending() check inside restore_user_sigmask() can NOT help,
> > simply because SIG_XXX can come right after this check.
>
> This I pointed out already that we should probably make this sequence atomic.

See above.

Oleg.