From 2d8d8b2d713a3b0c0aad0552608cc2cd13583207 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Sekletar <msekleta@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 19:20:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] udev: check if the spawned PID didn't exit after reaping
unexpected PID
We shouldn't just continue after getting SIGCHLD for the unexpected
process because signal coalescing might have happened. If it actually
did happen we won't get any more SIGCHLDs on signalfd.
Related: #1697909
---
src/udev/udev-event.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/udev/udev-event.c b/src/udev/udev-event.c
index 0ba079201c..7fe64f04a4 100644
--- a/src/udev/udev-event.c
+++ b/src/udev/udev-event.c
@@ -597,8 +597,9 @@ static int spawn_wait(struct udev_event *event,
}
if (pfd[0].revents & POLLIN) {
+ int child_exited = -1;
struct signalfd_siginfo fdsi;
- int status;
+ int status, r;
ssize_t size;
size = read(event->fd_signal, &fdsi, sizeof(struct signalfd_siginfo));
@@ -612,10 +613,28 @@ static int spawn_wait(struct udev_event *event,
case SIGCHLD:
if (pid != (pid_t) fdsi.ssi_pid) {
log_debug("expected SIGCHLD from '%s' ["PID_FMT"] received from unknown process ["PID_FMT"]. Ignoring", cmd, pid, fdsi.ssi_pid);
- continue;
+
+ /* We got SIGCHLD from unexpected process. Possibly some library that we use forked off something behind our back.
+ In case the PID we wait for also exited the kernel could coalesce SIGCHLDs and we won't get second SIGCHLD
+ on the signalfd. We can't know if coalescing happened or not, hence we need to call waitpid() in a loop until
+ the PID we care for exits, we if it haven't already. */
+ while (child_exited < 0) {
+ r = waitpid(-1, &status, 0);
+ if (r < 0 && errno == EINTR)
+ continue;
+ else if (r < 0)
+ break;
+ else if (r == pid)
+ child_exited = 0;
+ }
}
- if (waitpid(pid, &status, WNOHANG) <= 0)
- break;
+
+ /* We didn't wait for child yet, let's do that now */
+ if (child_exited < 0) {
+ if (waitpid(pid, &status, WNOHANG) <= 0)
+ break;
+ }
+
if (WIFEXITED(status)) {
log_debug("'%s' ["PID_FMT"] exit with return code %i", cmd, pid, WEXITSTATUS(status));
if (WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0)