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[PATCH v2] run-command: don't spam trace2_child_exit()

From
Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Date
Jun 7, 2022, 18:21 UTC
Message-ID
<50d872a057a558fa5519856b95abd048ddb514dc.1654625626.git.steadmon@google.com>
In-Reply-To
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In rare cases[1], wait_or_whine() cannot determine a child process's status (and will return -1 in this case). This can cause Git to issue trace2 child_exit events despite the fact that the child may still be running. In pathological cases, we've seen > 80 million exit events in our trace logs for a single child process.

Fix this by only issuing trace2 events in finish_command_in_signal() if we get a value other than -1 from wait_or_whine(). This can lead to missing child_exit events in such a case, but that is preferable to duplicating events on a scale that threatens to fill the user's filesystem with invalid trace logs.

[1]: This can happen when:
* waitpid() returns -1 and errno != EINTR
* waitpid() returns an invalid PID
* the status set by waitpid() has neither the WIFEXITED() nor
  WIFSIGNALED() flags
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
---
Updated the commit message with more details about when wait_or_whine()
can fail.
 run-command.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index a8501e38ce..e0fe2418a2 100644
--- a/run-command.c
+++ b/run-command.c
@@ -983,7 +983,8 @@ int finish_command(struct child_process *cmd)
 int finish_command_in_signal(struct child_process *cmd)
 {
 	int ret = wait_or_whine(cmd->pid, cmd->args.v[0], 1);
-	trace2_child_exit(cmd, ret);
+	if (ret != -1)
+		trace2_child_exit(cmd, ret);
 	return ret;
 }
 

base-commit: faa21c10d44184f616d391c158dcbb13b9c72ef3
-- 
2.36.1.255.ge46751e96f-goog
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  8. run-command: don't spam trace2_child_exit()Josh Steadmon, Jun 7, 2022
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