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2018-09-15check for kernel support before allowing robust mutex creationRich Felker1-1/+17
on some archs, linux support for futex operations (including robust_list processing) that depend on kernelspace CAS is conditional on a runtime check. as of linux 4.18, this check fails unconditionally on nommu archs that perform it, and spurious failure on powerpc64 was observed but not explained. it's also possible that futex support is omitted entirely, or that the kernel is older than 2.6.17. for most futex ops, ENOSYS does not yield hard breakage; userspace will just spin at 100% cpu load. but for robust mutexes, correct behavior depends on the kernel functionality. use the get_robust_list syscall to probe for support at the first call to pthread_mutexattr_setrobust, and block creation of robust mutexes with a reportable error if they can't be supported.
2015-04-10process robust list in pthread_exit to fix detached thread use-after-unmapRich Felker1-24/+0
the robust list head lies in the thread structure, which is unmapped before exit for detached threads. this leaves the kernel unable to process the exiting thread's robust list, and with a dangling pointer which may happen to point to new unrelated data at the time the kernel processes it. userspace processing of the robust list was already needed for non-pshared robust mutexes in order to perform private futex wakes rather than the shared ones the kernel would do, but it was conditional on linking pthread_mutexattr_setrobust and did not bother processing the pshared mutexes in the list, which requires additional logic for the robust list pending slot in case pthread_exit is interrupted by asynchronous process termination. the new robust list processing code is linked unconditionally (inlined in pthread_exit), handles both private and shared mutexes, and also removes the kernel's reference to the robust list before unmapping and exit if the exiting thread is detached.
2014-08-17make pointers used in robust list volatileRich Felker1-4/+6
when manipulating the robust list, the order of stores matters, because the code may be asynchronously interrupted by a fatal signal and the kernel will then access the robust list in what is essentially an async-signal context. previously, aliasing considerations made it seem unlikely that a compiler could reorder the stores, but proving that they could not be reordered incorrectly would have been extremely difficult. instead I've opted to make all the pointers used as part of the robust list, including those in the robust list head and in the individual mutexes, volatile. in addition, the format of the robust list has been changed to point back to the head at the end, rather than ending with a null pointer. this is to match the documented kernel robust list ABI. the null pointer, which was previously used, only worked because faults during access terminate the robust list processing.
2014-08-16enable private futex for process-local robust mutexesRich Felker1-0/+22
the kernel always uses non-private wake when walking the robust list when a thread or process exits, so it's not able to wake waiters listening with the private futex flag. this problem is solved by doing the equivalent in userspace as the last step of pthread_exit. care is taken to remove mutexes from the robust list before unlocking them so that the kernel will not attempt to access them again, possibly after another thread locks them. this removal code can treat the list as singly-linked, since no further code which would add or remove items is able to run at this point. moreover, the pending pointer is not needed since the mutexes being unlocked are all process-local; in the case of asynchronous process termination, they all cease to exist. since a process-local robust mutex cannot come into existence without a call to pthread_mutexattr_setrobust in the same process, the code for userspace robust list processing is put in that source file, and a weak alias to a dummy function is used to avoid pulling in this bloat as part of pthread_exit in static-linked programs.
2013-07-22make pthread attribute types structs, even when they just have one fieldRich Felker1-2/+2
this change is to get the right tags for C++ ABI matching. it should have no other effects.
2011-03-17implement robust mutexesRich Felker1-0/+9
some of this code should be cleaned up, e.g. using macros for some of the bit flags, masks, etc. nonetheless, the code is believed to be working and correct at this point.