Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] thread: move detach_thread from creating thread to created thread

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 11/28 12:46, linzhecheng wrote:
> If we create a thread with QEMU_THREAD_DETACHED mode, QEMU may get a segfault in a low probability.
> 
> The backtrace is:
> #0  0x00007f46c60291d7 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56
> #1  0x00007f46c602a8c8 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:90
> #2  0x00000000008543c9 in PAT_abort ()
> #3  0x000000000085140d in patchIllInsHandler ()
> #4  <signal handler called>
> #5  pthread_detach (th=139933037614848) at pthread_detach.c:50
> #6  0x0000000000829759 in qemu_thread_create (thread=thread@entry=0x7ffdaa8205e0, name=name@entry=0x94d94a "io-task-worker", start_routine=start_routine@entry=0x7eb9a0 <qio_task_thread_worker>, 
>     arg=arg@entry=0x3f5cf70, mode=mode@entry=1) at util/qemu_thread_posix.c:512
> #7  0x00000000007ebc96 in qio_task_run_in_thread (task=0x31db2c0, worker=worker@entry=0x7e7e40 <qio_channel_socket_connect_worker>, opaque=0xcd23380, destroy=0x7f1180 <qapi_free_SocketAddress>)
>     at io/task.c:141
> #8  0x00000000007e7f33 in qio_channel_socket_connect_async (ioc=ioc@entry=0x626c0b0, addr=<optimized out>, callback=callback@entry=0x55e080 <qemu_chr_socket_connected>, opaque=opaque@entry=0x42862c0, 
>     destroy=destroy@entry=0x0) at io/channel_socket.c:194
> #9  0x000000000055bdd1 in socket_reconnect_timeout (opaque=0x42862c0) at qemu_char.c:4744
> #10 0x00007f46c72483b3 in g_timeout_dispatch () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #11 0x00007f46c724799a in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #12 0x000000000076c646 in glib_pollfds_poll () at main_loop.c:228
> #13 0x000000000076c6eb in os_host_main_loop_wait (timeout=348000000) at main_loop.c:273
> #14 0x000000000076c815 in main_loop_wait (nonblocking=nonblocking@entry=0) at main_loop.c:521
> #15 0x000000000056a511 in main_loop () at vl.c:2076
> #16 0x0000000000420705 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, envp=<optimized out>) at vl.c:4940
> 
> The root cause of this problem is a bug of glibc(version 2.17,the latest version has the same bug),
> let's see what happened in glibc's code.
> Here is the code slice of pthread_detach.c
> 
> 25 int
> 26 pthread_detach (pthread_t th)
> 27 {
> 28  struct pthread *pd = (struct pthread *) th;
> 29
> 30  /* Make sure the descriptor is valid.  */
> 31  if (INVALID_NOT_TERMINATED_TD_P (pd))
> 32    /* Not a valid thread handle.  */
> 34    return ESRCH;
> 35
> 36  int result = 0;
> 37  /* Mark the thread as detached.  */
> 38  if (atomic_compare_and_exchange_bool_acq (&pd->joinid, pd, NULL))
> 39    {
> 40      /* There are two possibilities here.  First, the thread might
> 41	 already be detached.  In this case we return EINVAL.
> 42	 Otherwise there might already be a waiter.  The standard does
> 43	 not mention what happens in this case.  */
> 44     if (IS_DETACHED (pd))
> 45	 result = EINVAL;
> 46    }
> 47  else
> 48    /* Check whether the thread terminated meanwhile.  In this case we
> 49       will just free the TCB.  */
> 50    if ((pd->cancelhandling & EXITING_BITMASK) != 0)
> 51      /* Note that the code in __free_tcb makes sure each thread
> 52	 control block is freed only once.  */
> 53      __free_tcb (pd);
> 54  return result;
> 55}
> 
> QEMU get a segfault at line 50, becasue pd is an invalid address.
> pd is still valid at line 38 when set pd->joinid = pd, at this moment,
> created thread is just exiting(only keeps runing for a short time),
> created thread is running in code of start_thread:
> 
> 404  /* If the thread is detached free the TCB.  */
> 405  if (IS_DETACHED (pd))
> 406    /* Free the TCB.  */
> 407    __free_tcb (pd);
> created thread found that pd is detached, so it freed pd, in this case,
> pd became an invalid address.
> 
> I rewrite qemu_thread_create to move detach_thread from creating thread to created
> to avoid this concurrency problem.
> 
> Change-Id: I2293d5be1526241cf58785d701b922f2ffc6491b
> Signed-off-by: linzhecheng <linzhecheng@huawei.com>
> 
> diff --git a/include/qemu/thread-posix.h b/include/qemu/thread-posix.h
> index f3f47e4..4c6dbb8 100644
> --- a/include/qemu/thread-posix.h
> +++ b/include/qemu/thread-posix.h
> @@ -44,4 +44,12 @@ struct QemuThread {
>      pthread_t thread;
>  };
>  
> +typedef struct {
> +    void *(*start_routine)(void *);
> +    void *arg;
> +    char *name;
> +    int mode;
> +} QemuThreadArgs;
> +
> +
>  #endif
> diff --git a/util/qemu-thread-posix.c b/util/qemu-thread-posix.c
> index 7306475..e5bdb6b 100644
> --- a/util/qemu-thread-posix.c
> +++ b/util/qemu-thread-posix.c
> @@ -489,6 +489,30 @@ static void qemu_thread_set_name(QemuThread *thread, const char *name)
>  #endif
>  }
>  
> +static void *qemu_thread_start(void *args)
> +{
> +    QemuThreadArgs *qemu_thread_args;
> +    void *ret;
> +    QemuThread qemu_thread;
> +
> +    qemu_thread_args = args;
> +    qemu_thread_get_self(&qemu_thread);
> +
> +    if (qemu_thread_args->name) {
> +        qemu_thread_set_name(&qemu_thread, qemu_thread_args->name);
> +        g_free(qemu_thread_args->name);
> +    }
> +
> +    if (qemu_thread_args->mode == QEMU_THREAD_DETACHED) {
> +        pthread_detach(qemu_thread.thread);
> +    }
> +    ret = qemu_thread_args->start_routine(qemu_thread_args->arg);
> +
> +    g_free(qemu_thread_args);
> +    return ret;
> +}
> +
> +
>  void qemu_thread_create(QemuThread *thread, const char *name,
>                         void *(*start_routine)(void*),
>                         void *arg, int mode)
> @@ -496,6 +520,7 @@ void qemu_thread_create(QemuThread *thread, const char *name,
>      sigset_t set, oldset;
>      int err;
>      pthread_attr_t attr;
> +    QemuThreadArgs *qemu_thread_args;
>  
>      err = pthread_attr_init(&attr);
>      if (err) {
> @@ -505,20 +530,18 @@ void qemu_thread_create(QemuThread *thread, const char *name,
>      /* Leave signal handling to the iothread.  */
>      sigfillset(&set);
>      pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &set, &oldset);
> -    err = pthread_create(&thread->thread, &attr, start_routine, arg);
> +
> +    qemu_thread_args = g_new0(QemuThreadArgs, 1);
> +    qemu_thread_args->mode = mode;
> +    qemu_thread_args->name = name_threads ? g_strdup_printf("%s", name) : NULL;
> +    qemu_thread_args->start_routine = start_routine;
> +    qemu_thread_args->arg = arg;
> +
> +    err = pthread_create(&thread->thread, &attr,
> +                         qemu_thread_start, qemu_thread_args);
>      if (err)
>          error_exit(err, __func__);
>  
> -    if (name_threads) {
> -        qemu_thread_set_name(thread, name);
> -    }
> -
> -    if (mode == QEMU_THREAD_DETACHED) {
> -        err = pthread_detach(thread->thread);
> -        if (err) {
> -            error_exit(err, __func__);
> -        }
> -    }
>      pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &oldset, NULL);
>  
>      pthread_attr_destroy(&attr);
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
> 
> 

Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>