Commit 629bfb9f authored by Mikulas Patocka's avatar Mikulas Patocka Committed by Ben Hutchings
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alpha: fix crash if pthread_create races with signal delivery

commit 21ffceda upstream.

On alpha, a process will crash if it attempts to start a thread and a
signal is delivered at the same time. The crash can be reproduced with
this program: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg00473.html



The reason for the crash is this:
* we call the clone syscall
* we go to the function copy_process
* copy process calls copy_thread_tls, it is a wrapper around copy_thread
* copy_thread sets the tls pointer: childti->pcb.unique = regs->r20
* copy_thread sets regs->r20 to zero
* we go back to copy_process
* copy process checks "if (signal_pending(current))" and returns
  -ERESTARTNOINTR
* the clone syscall is restarted, but this time, regs->r20 is zero, so
  the new thread is created with zero tls pointer
* the new thread crashes in start_thread when attempting to access tls

The comment in the code says that setting the register r20 is some
compatibility with OSF/1. But OSF/1 doesn't use the CLONE_SETTLS flag, so
we don't have to zero r20 if CLONE_SETTLS is set. This patch fixes the bug
by zeroing regs->r20 only if CLONE_SETTLS is not set.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Remove the settls variable, which was done upstream in commit 25906730
   "alpha: reorganize copy_process(), prepare to saner fork_idle()"]
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent 33d0141f
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