Re: [PULL 3/6] qemu/osdep: Split qemu_close_all_open_fd() and add fallback

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 08:47:27AM +1000, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 8/28/24 22:48, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > >       dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd");
> > 
> > IIUC from previous threads this is valid on Linux and on Solaris.
> > 
> > On FreeBSD & macOS, you need /dev/fd though.
> 
> Fair, but importantly, it doesn't do anything *incorrect* those systems: it
> merely skips this method with ENOENT.
> 
> > > +    int open_max = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX), i;
> > > +
> > > +    /* Fallback */
> > > +    for (i = 0; i < open_max; i++) {
> > > +        close(i);
> > > +    }
> > 
> > I'm told that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) returns -1 on some versions of
> > macOS. "Luckily" since we assigned to 'int' rather than 'unsigned int'
> > this will result in us not closing any FDs in this fallback path,
> > rather than trying to close several billion FDs (an effective hang).
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> > 
> > If _SC_OPEN_MAX returns -1, we should fallback to the OPEN_MAX
> > constant on macOS (see commit de448e0f26e710e9d2b7fc91393c40ac24b75847
> > which tackled a similar issue wrt getrlimit), and fallback to perhaps
> > a hardcoded 1024 on non-macOS.
> 
> I wish the timing on this had been better -- 25 minutes earlier and I would have delayed rc4.
> 
> Since macOS simply doesn't close fds, I'm of a mind to release 9.1.0 without
> this, and fix it for 9.1.1.  Thoughts?

The original net/tap.c code for closing FDs has the same bug, so in that
area we do NOT have a regression.

The original async teardown code would fail to close FDs as it is looking
for close_range or /proc/$PID/fd, and has no sysconf fallback, so again
no regression there.

IOW, I think this is acceptable to fix in 9.1 stable.

With regards,
Daniel
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