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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:27:56 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add support for pthread_sigqueue

On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 03:12:55PM +0100, Daniel Fahlgren wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch adds the function pthread_sigqueue. Since this is my first
> patch to musl I probably have missed something. Any feedback?
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel Fahlgren

> From 2e3e423b4d3d62fec3525c2e09fc9daf35fbe885 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Daniel Fahlgren <daniel@...lgren.se>
> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 13:24:43 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Add pthread_sigqueue
> 
> This makes it possible to queue a signal and data to a thread
> ---
>  include/signal.h              |  1 +
>  src/thread/pthread_sigqueue.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 src/thread/pthread_sigqueue.c
> 
> diff --git a/include/signal.h b/include/signal.h
> index fbdf667b..8bb7d1b4 100644
> --- a/include/signal.h
> +++ b/include/signal.h
> @@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ int sigqueue(pid_t, int, union sigval);
>  
>  int pthread_sigmask(int, const sigset_t *__restrict, sigset_t *__restrict);
>  int pthread_kill(pthread_t, int);
> +int pthread_sigqueue(pthread_t, int, union sigval);
>  
>  void psiginfo(const siginfo_t *, const char *);
>  void psignal(int, const char *);
> diff --git a/src/thread/pthread_sigqueue.c b/src/thread/pthread_sigqueue.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..8de8d49a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/src/thread/pthread_sigqueue.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
> +#include <signal.h>
> +#include <string.h>
> +#include <unistd.h>
> +#include "pthread_impl.h"
> +#include "lock.h"
> +
> +int pthread_sigqueue(pthread_t t, int sig, const union sigval value)
> +{
> +	siginfo_t si;
> +	sigset_t set;
> +	int r;
> +	memset(&si, 0, sizeof si);
> +	si.si_signo = sig;
> +	si.si_code = SI_QUEUE;
> +	si.si_value = value;
> +	si.si_uid = getuid();
> +	si.si_pid = getpid();
> +	LOCK(t->killlock);
> +	r = t->tid ? -__syscall(SYS_rt_tgsigqueueinfo, si.si_pid, t->tid, sig, &si)
> +		: (sig+0U >= _NSIG ? EINVAL : 0);
> +	UNLOCK(t->killlock);
> +	return r;
> +}
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

Is the naming pthread_sigqueue (vs pthread_sigqueue_np) intentional?
Normally pthread functions that are not part of the standard are
introduced as _np (non-portable) and promoted later if accepted as
standards since the pthread_* namespace is reserved for future
directions of the standard. Does glibc have this function with the
same signature already?

I also notice that there's a fundamental race between getting the uid,
pid, and tid and sending the signal that would normally need to be
mitigated by blocking signals for the duration of the operation.
However, I don't think we need to care about a fork interrupting it;
if that happens, the t argument is invalid and thus the call has
undefined behavior. This leaves concurrent change of uid as a
consideration. The normal sigqueue is not doing anything special about
that, but perhaps it should; I haven't thought enough about it yet to
have an opinion, so I'm just raising the issue for consideration at
this point.

With that said, this mostly looks good.

Rich

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