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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:14:43 -0700
From: Hydro Flask <hydroflask@...mail.com>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Potential deadlock in pthread_kill()
On 2020-07-06 15:00, Rich Felker wrote:
> Yes, I see it clearly now. Sorry it took a while. I have prepared the
> attached patch which I'll push soon if there are no problems.
Needs one more tiny tweak. I noticed that pthread_cancel() calls
pthread_kill(). That means pthread_kill() must be async-cancel-safe. If
an asynchronous cancellation happens after pthread_kill() grabs the
killlock, then it will deadlock because the asynchronous
pthread_exit(PTHREAD_CANCELED) call will then recursively try to grab
killlock.
The solution as far as I can tell is to not just block app signals when
grabbing killlock, but all signals.
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