/* lock.c Lock and unlock a file name. Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Ian Lance Taylor This file is part of the Taylor UUCP package. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. The author of the program may be contacted at ian@airs.com or c/o Infinity Development Systems, P.O. Box 520, Waltham, MA 02254. */ #include "uucp.h" #if USE_RCS_ID const char lock_rcsid[] = "$Id: lock.c,v 1.1 1993/08/04 19:32:33 jtc Exp $"; #endif #include "uudefs.h" #include "sysdep.h" #include "system.h" #include #if HAVE_FCNTL_H #include #else #if HAVE_SYS_FILE_H #include #endif #endif #ifndef O_RDONLY #define O_RDONLY 0 #define O_WRONLY 1 #define O_RDWR 2 #endif #ifndef O_NOCTTY #define O_NOCTTY 0 #endif #ifndef SEEK_SET #define SEEK_SET 0 #endif /* Lock something. If the fspooldir argument is TRUE, the argument is a file name relative to the spool directory; otherwise the argument is a simple file name which should be created in the system lock directory (under HDB this is /etc/locks). */ boolean fsdo_lock (zlock, fspooldir, pferr) const char *zlock; boolean fspooldir; boolean *pferr; { char *zfree; const char *zpath, *zslash; size_t cslash; pid_t ime; char *ztempfile; char abtempfile[sizeof "TMP1234567890"]; int o; #if HAVE_V2_LOCKFILES int i; #else char ab[12]; #endif int cwrote; const char *zerr; boolean fret; if (pferr != NULL) *pferr = TRUE; if (fspooldir) { zfree = NULL; zpath = zlock; } else { zfree = zsysdep_in_dir (zSlockdir, zlock); zpath = zfree; } ime = getpid (); /* We do the actual lock by creating a file and then linking it to the final file name we want. This avoids race conditions due to one process checking the file before we have finished writing it, and also works even if we are somehow running as root. First, create the file in the right directory (we must create the file in the same directory since otherwise we might attempt a cross-device link). */ zslash = strrchr (zpath, '/'); if (zslash == NULL) cslash = 0; else cslash = zslash - zpath + 1; sprintf (abtempfile, "TMP%010lx", (unsigned long) ime); ztempfile = zbufalc (cslash + sizeof abtempfile); memcpy (ztempfile, zpath, cslash); memcpy (ztempfile + cslash, abtempfile, sizeof abtempfile); o = creat (ztempfile, IPUBLIC_FILE_MODE); if (o < 0) { if (errno == ENOENT) { if (! fsysdep_make_dirs (ztempfile, FALSE)) { ubuffree (zfree); ubuffree (ztempfile); return FALSE; } o = creat (ztempfile, IPUBLIC_FILE_MODE); } if (o < 0) { ulog (LOG_ERROR, "creat (%s): %s", ztempfile, strerror (errno)); ubuffree (zfree); ubuffree (ztempfile); return FALSE; } } #if HAVE_V2_LOCKFILES i = ime; cwrote = write (o, &i, sizeof i); #else sprintf (ab, "%10d\n", (int) ime); cwrote = write (o, ab, strlen (ab)); #endif zerr = NULL; if (cwrote < 0) zerr = "write"; if (close (o) < 0) zerr = "close"; if (zerr != NULL) { ulog (LOG_ERROR, "%s (%s): %s", zerr, ztempfile, strerror (errno)); (void) remove (ztempfile); ubuffree (zfree); ubuffree (ztempfile); return FALSE; } /* Now try to link the file we just created to the lock file that we want. If it fails, try reading the existing file to make sure the process that created it still exists. We do this in a loop to make it easy to retry if the old locking process no longer exists. */ fret = TRUE; if (pferr != NULL) *pferr = FALSE; o = -1; zerr = NULL; while (link (ztempfile, zpath) != 0) { int cgot; int ipid; boolean freadonly; fret = FALSE; if (errno != EEXIST) { ulog (LOG_ERROR, "link (%s, %s): %s", ztempfile, zpath, strerror (errno)); if (pferr != NULL) *pferr = TRUE; break; } freadonly = FALSE; o = open ((char *) zpath, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY, 0); if (o < 0) { if (errno == EACCES) { freadonly = TRUE; o = open ((char *) zpath, O_RDONLY, 0); } if (o < 0) { if (errno == ENOENT) { /* The file was presumably removed between the link and the open. Try the link again. */ fret = TRUE; continue; } zerr = "open"; break; } } /* The race starts here. See below for a discussion. */ #if HAVE_V2_LOCKFILES cgot = read (o, &i, sizeof i); #else cgot = read (o, ab, sizeof ab - 1); #endif if (cgot < 0) { zerr = "read"; break; } #if HAVE_V2_LOCKFILES ipid = i; #else ab[cgot] = '\0'; ipid = strtol (ab, (char **) NULL, 10); #endif /* On NFS, the link might have actually succeeded even though we got a failure return. This can happen if the original acknowledgement was lost or delayed and the operation was retried. In this case the pid will be our own. This introduces a rather improbable race condition: if a stale lock was left with our process ID in it, and another process just did the kill, below, but has not yet changed the lock file to hold its own process ID, we could start up and make it all the way to here and think we have the lock. I'm not going to worry about this possibility. */ if (ipid == ime) { fret = TRUE; break; } /* If the process still exists, we will get EPERM rather than ESRCH. We then return FALSE to indicate that we cannot make the lock. */ if (kill (ipid, 0) == 0 || errno == EPERM) break; ulog (LOG_ERROR, "Found stale lock %s held by process %d", zpath, ipid); /* This is a stale lock, created by a process that no longer exists. Now we could remove the file (and, if the file mode disallows writing, that's what we have to do), but we try to avoid doing so since it causes a race condition. If we remove the file, and are interrupted any time after we do the read until we do the remove, another process could get in, open the file, find that it was a stale lock, remove the file and create a new one. When we regained control we would remove the file the other process just created. These files are being generated partially for the benefit of cu, and it would be nice to avoid the race however cu avoids it, so that the programs remain compatible. Unfortunately, nobody seems to know how cu avoids the race, or even if it tries to avoid it at all. There are a few ways to avoid the race. We could use kernel locking primitives, but they may not be available. We could link to a special file name, but if that file were left lying around then no stale lock could ever be broken (Henry Spencer would think this was a good thing). Instead I've implemented the following procedure: seek to the start of the file, write our pid into it, sleep for five seconds, and then make sure our pid is still there. Anybody who checks the file while we're asleep will find our pid there and fail the lock. The only race will come from another process which has done the read by the time we do our write. That process will then have five seconds to do its own write. When we wake up, we'll notice that our pid is no longer in the file, and retry the lock from the beginning. This relies on the atomicity of write(2). If it possible for the writes of two processes to be interleaved, the two processes could livelock. POSIX unfortunately leaves this case explicitly undefined; however, given that the write is of less than a disk block, it's difficult to imagine an interleave occurring. Note that this is still a race. If it takes the second process more than five seconds to do the kill, the lseek, and the write, both processes will think they have the lock. Perhaps the length of time to sleep should be configurable. Even better, perhaps I should add a configuration option to use a permanent lock file, which eliminates any race and forces the installer to be aware of the existence of the permanent lock file. We stat the file after the sleep, to make sure some other program hasn't deleted it for us. */ if (freadonly) { (void) close (o); o = -1; (void) remove (zpath); continue; } if (lseek (o, (off_t) 0, SEEK_SET) != 0) { zerr = "lseek"; break; } #if HAVE_V2_LOCKFILES i = ime; cwrote = write (o, &i, sizeof i); #else sprintf (ab, "%10d\n", (int) ime); cwrote = write (o, ab, strlen (ab)); #endif if (cwrote < 0) { zerr = "write"; break; } (void) sleep (5); if (lseek (o, (off_t) 0, SEEK_SET) != 0) { zerr = "lseek"; break; } #if HAVE_V2_LOCKFILES cgot = read (o, &i, sizeof i); #else cgot = read (o, ab, sizeof ab - 1); #endif if (cgot < 0) { zerr = "read"; break; } #if HAVE_V2_LOCKFILES ipid = i; #else ab[cgot] = '\0'; ipid = strtol (ab, (char **) NULL, 10); #endif if (ipid == ime) { struct stat sfile, sdescriptor; /* It looks like we have the lock. Do the final stat check. */ if (stat ((char *) zpath, &sfile) < 0) { if (errno != ENOENT) { zerr = "stat"; break; } /* Loop around and try again. */ } else { if (fstat (o, &sdescriptor) < 0) { zerr = "fstat"; break; } if (sfile.st_ino == sdescriptor.st_ino && sfile.st_dev == sdescriptor.st_dev) { /* Close the file before assuming we've succeeded to pick up any trailing errors. */ if (close (o) < 0) { zerr = "close"; break; } o = -1; /* We have the lock. */ fret = TRUE; break; } } } /* Loop around and try the lock again. We keep doing this until the lock file holds a pid that exists. */ (void) close (o); o = -1; fret = TRUE; } if (zerr != NULL) { ulog (LOG_ERROR, "%s (%s): %s", zerr, zpath, strerror (errno)); if (pferr != NULL) *pferr = TRUE; } if (o >= 0) (void) close (o); ubuffree (zfree); /* It would be nice if we could leave the temporary file around for future calls, but considering that we create lock files in various different directories it's probably more trouble than it's worth. */ if (remove (ztempfile) != 0) ulog (LOG_ERROR, "remove (%s): %s", ztempfile, strerror (errno)); ubuffree (ztempfile); return fret; } /* Unlock something. The fspooldir argument is as in fsdo_lock. */ boolean fsdo_unlock (zlock, fspooldir) const char *zlock; boolean fspooldir; { char *zfree; const char *zpath; if (fspooldir) { zfree = NULL; zpath = zlock; } else { zfree = zsysdep_in_dir (zSlockdir, zlock); zpath = zfree; } if (remove (zpath) == 0 || errno == ENOENT) { ubuffree (zfree); return TRUE; } else { ulog (LOG_ERROR, "remove (%s): %s", zpath, strerror (errno)); ubuffree (zfree); return FALSE; } }