musl/arch/x86_64/pthread_arch.h
Rich Felker b470030f83 overhaul cancellation to fix resource leaks and dangerous behavior with signals
this commit addresses two issues:

1. a race condition, whereby a cancellation request occurring after a
syscall returned from kernelspace but before the subsequent
CANCELPT_END would cause cancellable resource-allocating syscalls
(like open) to leak resources.

2. signal handlers invoked while the thread was blocked at a
cancellation point behaved as if asynchronous cancellation mode wer in
effect, resulting in potentially dangerous state corruption if a
cancellation request occurs.

the glibc/nptl implementation of threads shares both of these issues.

with this commit, both are fixed. however, cancellation points
encountered in a signal handler will not be acted upon if the signal
was received while the thread was already at a cancellation point.
they will of course be acted upon after the signal handler returns, so
in real-world usage where signal handlers quickly return, it should
not be a problem. it's possible to solve this problem too by having
sigaction() wrap all signal handlers with a function that uses a
pthread_cleanup handler to catch cancellation, patch up the saved
context, and return into the cancellable function that will catch and
act upon the cancellation. however that would be a lot of complexity
for minimal if any benefit...
2011-03-24 14:18:00 -04:00

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static inline struct pthread *__pthread_self()
{
struct pthread *self;
__asm__ ("movq %%fs:0,%0" : "=r" (self) );
return self;
}
#define PC_AT_SYS(c) \
(*(uint16_t *)(((ucontext_t *)(c))->uc_mcontext.__gregs[16])==0x050f)