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-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.03
-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/timerfd.cc24
-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/timerfd.h2
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.0 b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.0
index a2bdc8f3c..e8144d4d0 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.0
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.0
@@ -34,3 +34,6 @@ Bug Fixes
- Define missing MSG_EOR. It's unsupported by the underlying Winsock
layer so using it in send(2), sendto(2), or sendmsg(2) will return -1
with errno set to EOPNOTSUPP and recvmsg(2) will never return it.
+
+- Fix a race condition in the timerfd code.
+ Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2019-06/msg00096.html
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/timerfd.cc b/winsup/cygwin/timerfd.cc
index 8e4c94e66..f1a4c2804 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/timerfd.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/timerfd.cc
@@ -89,6 +89,25 @@ timerfd_tracker::handle_timechange_window ()
}
}
+/* Like enter_critical_section, but returns -1 on a cancel event. */
+int
+timerfd_tracker::enter_critical_section_cancelable ()
+{
+ HANDLE w[2] = { cancel_evt, _access_mtx };
+ DWORD waitret = WaitForMultipleObjects (2, w, FALSE, INFINITE);
+
+ switch (waitret)
+ {
+ case WAIT_OBJECT_0:
+ return -1;
+ case WAIT_OBJECT_0 + 1:
+ case WAIT_ABANDONED_0 + 1:
+ return 1;
+ default:
+ return 0;
+ }
+}
+
DWORD
timerfd_tracker::thread_func ()
{
@@ -137,7 +156,10 @@ timerfd_tracker::thread_func ()
continue;
}
- if (!enter_critical_section ())
+ int ec = enter_critical_section_cancelable ();
+ if (ec < 0)
+ goto canceled;
+ else if (!ec)
continue;
/* Make sure we haven't been abandoned and/or disarmed
in the meantime */
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/timerfd.h b/winsup/cygwin/timerfd.h
index 154be0847..80688e79e 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/timerfd.h
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/timerfd.h
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ class timerfd_tracker /* cygheap! */
return (WaitForSingleObject (_access_mtx, INFINITE) & ~WAIT_ABANDONED_0)
== WAIT_OBJECT_0;
}
+ /* A version that honors a cancel event, for use in thread_func. */
+ int enter_critical_section_cancelable ();
void leave_critical_section ()
{
ReleaseMutex (_access_mtx);