Disposition (action) for any given signal is global for the process.
When two threads run coroutine-sigaltstack's qemu_coroutine_new()
concurrently, they may interfere with each other: One of them may revert
the SIGUSR2 handler to SIG_DFL, between the other thread (a) setting up
coroutine_trampoline() as the handler and (b) raising SIGUSR2. That
SIGUSR2 will then terminate the QEMU process abnormally.
We have to ensure that only one thread at a time can modify the
process-global SIGUSR2 handler. To do so, wrap the whole section where
that is done in a mutex.
Alternatively, we could for example have the SIGUSR2 handler always be
coroutine_trampoline(), so there would be no need to invoke sigaction()
in qemu_coroutine_new(). Laszlo has posted a patch to do so here:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05962.html
However, given that coroutine-sigaltstack is more of a fallback
implementation for platforms that do not support ucontext, that change
may be a bit too invasive to be comfortable with it. The mutex proposed
here may negatively impact performance, but the change is much simpler.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210125120305.19520-1-mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
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