Adding upstream version 255.4.upstream/255.4

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 137 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/shared/async.c b/src/shared/async.c
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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later */
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <sys/prctl.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "async.h"
+#include "errno-util.h"
+#include "fd-util.h"
+#include "log.h"
+#include "macro.h"
+#include "process-util.h"
+#include "signal-util.h"
+
+int asynchronous_sync(pid_t *ret_pid) {
+        int r;
+
+        /* This forks off an invocation of fork() as a child process, in order to initiate synchronization to
+         * disk. Note that we implement this as helper process rather than thread as we don't want the sync() to hang our
+         * original process ever, and a thread would do that as the process can't exit with threads hanging in blocking
+         * syscalls. */
+
+        r = safe_fork("(sd-sync)", FORK_RESET_SIGNALS|FORK_CLOSE_ALL_FDS|(ret_pid ? 0 : FORK_DETACH), ret_pid);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+        if (r == 0) {
+                /* Child process */
+                sync();
+                _exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+        }
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+/* We encode the fd to close in the userdata pointer as an unsigned value. The highest bit indicates whether
+ * we need to fork again */
+#define NEED_DOUBLE_FORK (1U << (sizeof(unsigned) * 8 - 1))
+
+static int close_func(void *p) {
+        unsigned v = PTR_TO_UINT(p);
+
+        (void) prctl(PR_SET_NAME, (unsigned long*) "(sd-close)");
+
+        /* Note: 💣 This function is invoked in a child process created via glibc's clone() wrapper. In such
+         *       children memory allocation is not allowed, since glibc does not release malloc mutexes in
+         *       clone() 💣 */
+
+        if (v & NEED_DOUBLE_FORK) {
+                pid_t pid;
+
+                v &= ~NEED_DOUBLE_FORK;
+
+                /* This inner child will be reparented to the subreaper/PID 1. Here we turn on SIGCHLD, so
+                 * that the reaper knows when it's time to reap. */
+                pid = clone_with_nested_stack(close_func, SIGCHLD|CLONE_FILES, UINT_TO_PTR(v));
+                if (pid >= 0)
+                        return 0;
+        }
+
+        close((int) v); /* no assert() here, we are in the child and the result would be eaten up anyway */
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int asynchronous_close(int fd) {
+        unsigned v;
+        pid_t pid;
+        int r;
+
+        /* This is supposed to behave similar to safe_close(), but actually invoke close() asynchronously, so
+         * that it will never block. Ideally the kernel would have an API for this, but it doesn't, so we
+         * work around it, and hide this as a far away as we can.
+         *
+         * It is important to us that we don't use threads (via glibc pthread) in PID 1, hence we'll do a
+         * minimal subprocess instead which shares our fd table via CLONE_FILES. */
+
+        if (fd < 0)
+                return -EBADF; /* already invalid */
+
+        PROTECT_ERRNO;
+
+        v = (unsigned) fd;
+
+        /* We want to fork off a process that is automatically reaped. For that we'd usually double-fork. But
+         * we can optimize this a bit: if we are PID 1 or a subreaper anyway (the systemd service manager
+         * process qualifies as this), we can avoid the double forking, since the double forked process would
+         * be reparented back to us anyway. */
+        r = is_reaper_process();
+        if (r < 0)
+                log_debug_errno(r, "Cannot determine if we are a reaper process, assuming we are not: %m");
+        if (r <= 0)
+                v |= NEED_DOUBLE_FORK;
+
+        pid = clone_with_nested_stack(close_func, CLONE_FILES | ((v & NEED_DOUBLE_FORK) ? 0 : SIGCHLD), UINT_TO_PTR(v));
+        if (pid < 0)
+                assert_se(close_nointr(fd) != -EBADF); /* local fallback */
+        else if (v & NEED_DOUBLE_FORK) {
+
+                /* Reap the intermediate child. Key here is that we specify __WCLONE, since we didn't ask for
+                 * any signal to be sent to us on process exit, and otherwise waitid() would refuse waiting
+                 * then.
+                 *
+                 * We usually prefer calling waitid(), but before kernel 4.7 it didn't support __WCLONE while
+                 * waitpid() did. Hence let's use waitpid() here, it's good enough for our purposes here. */
+                for (;;)
+                        if (waitpid(pid, NULL, __WCLONE) >= 0 || errno != EINTR)
+                                break;
+        }
+
+        return -EBADF; /* return an invalidated fd */
+}
+
+int asynchronous_rm_rf(const char *p, RemoveFlags flags) {
+        int r;
+
+        assert(p);
+
+        /* Forks off a child that destroys the specified path. This will be best effort only, i.e. the child
+         * will attempt to do its thing, but we won't wait for it or check its success. */
+
+        r = safe_fork("(sd-rmrf)", FORK_RESET_SIGNALS|FORK_CLOSE_ALL_FDS|FORK_DETACH, NULL);
+        if (r != 0)
+                return r;
+
+        /* Child */
+
+        r = rm_rf(p, flags);
+        if (r < 0) {
+                log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to rm -rf '%s', ignoring: %m", p);
+                _exit(EXIT_FAILURE); /* This is a detached process, hence no one really cares, but who knows
+                                      * maybe it's good for debugging/tracing to return an exit code
+                                      * indicative of our failure here. */
+        }
+
+        _exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+}