Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] daemon: explicitly allow EINTR during poll()
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- Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jul 9, 2025, 14:12 UTC
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- <b1027221-3e17-40d2-b293-4b1625fa095d@gmail.com>
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On 26/06/2025 09:53, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón via GitGitGadget wrote:
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> This series addresses and ambiguity that is at least visible in OpenBSD, > where zombie proceses would only be cleared after a new connection is > received. > > The underlying problem is that when this code was originally introduced, > SA_RESTART was not widely implemented, and the signal() call usually > implemented SysV like semantics, at least until it started being > reimplemented by calling sigaction() internally.
I'm all in favor of using sigaction() but I think the SA_RESTART parts of this series are an unnecessary complication that has the potential to hide bugs as we support platforms without SA_RESTART. Your EINTR patches have all been about efficiency rather than correctness so I think my initial assessment that the existing code handles EINTR correctly was probably true. As I said in my comments on patch 3 I think we can happily drop patches 1 and 4.
Thanks
Phillip
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> Changes since v2
>
> * Add a new patch 2 that modifies windows' sigaction so there is no more
> need for a fallback
> * Hopefully no more silly mistakes and a variable that finally makes sense
>
> Changes since v1
>
> * Almost all references to siginterrupt has been removed and a better named
> variable used instead
> * Changes had been abstracted to minimize ifdefs and their introduction
> staged more naturally
>
> Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón (4):
> compat/posix.h: track SA_RESTART fallback
> compat/mingw: allow sigaction(SIGCHLD)
> daemon: use sigaction() to install child_handler()
> daemon: explicitly allow EINTR during poll()
>
> Makefile | 5 +++++
> compat/mingw-posix.h | 2 +-
> compat/mingw.c | 4 +++-
> compat/posix.h | 8 ++++++++
> config.mak.uname | 7 ++++---
> configure.ac | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> daemon.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> meson.build | 4 ++++
> 8 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: cb3b40381e1d5ee32dde96521ad7cfd68eb308a6
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-2002%2Fcarenas%2Fsiginterrupt-v3
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-2002/carenas/siginterrupt-v3
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/2002
>
> Range-diff vs v2:
>
> 1: e82b7425bbc ! 1: ae1ca6bb2b2 compat/posix.h: track SA_RESTART fallback
> @@ Makefile: include shared.mak
> # when attempting to read from an fopen'ed directory (or even to fopen
> # it at all).
> #
> -+# Define USE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL if don't have support for SA_RESTART or
> -+# prefer to use ANSI C signal() over POSIX sigaction()
> ++# Define NO_RESTARTABLE_SIGNALS if don't have support for SA_RESTART
> +#
> # Define OPEN_RETURNS_EINTR if your open() system call may return EINTR
> # when a signal is received (as opposed to restarting).
> @@ Makefile: ifdef FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES
> COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DFREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES
> COMPAT_OBJS += compat/fopen.o
> endif
> -+ifdef USE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL
> -+ COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DUSE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL
> ++ifdef NO_RESTARTABLE_SIGNALS
> ++ COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_RESTARTABLE_SIGNALS
> +endif
> ifdef OPEN_RETURNS_EINTR
> COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DOPEN_RETURNS_EINTR
> @@ compat/posix.h: char *gitdirname(char *);
> + * not on some systems (e.g. NonStop, QNX).
> + */
> +#ifndef SA_RESTART
> -+# define SA_RESTART 0 /* disabled for sigaction() */
> ++# define SA_RESTART 0 /* disabled for sigaction() */
> +#endif
> +
> typedef uintmax_t timestamp_t;
> @@ config.mak.uname: ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows)
> NO_STRTOUMAX = YesPlease
> NO_MKDTEMP = YesPlease
> NO_INTTYPES_H = YesPlease
> -+ USE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL = YesPlease
> ++ NO_RESTARTABLE_SIGNALS = YesPlease
> CSPRNG_METHOD = rtlgenrandom
> # VS2015 with UCRT claims that snprintf and friends are C99 compliant,
> # so we don't need this:
> @@ config.mak.uname: ifeq ($(uname_S),NONSTOP_KERNEL)
> NO_MMAP = YesPlease
> NO_POLL = YesPlease
> NO_INTPTR_T = UnfortunatelyYes
> -+ USE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL = UnfortunatelyYes
> ++ NO_RESTARTABLE_SIGNALS = UnfortunatelyYes
> CSPRNG_METHOD = openssl
> SANE_TOOL_PATH = /usr/coreutils/bin:/usr/local/bin
> SHELL_PATH = /usr/coreutils/bin/bash
> @@ config.mak.uname: ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW)
> NEEDS_LIBICONV = YesPlease
> NO_STRTOUMAX = YesPlease
> NO_MKDTEMP = YesPlease
> -+ USE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL = YesPlease
> ++ NO_RESTARTABLE_SIGNALS = YesPlease
> NO_SVN_TESTS = YesPlease
>
> # The builtin FSMonitor requires Named Pipes and Threads on Windows.
> @@ config.mak.uname: ifeq ($(uname_S),QNX)
> NO_PTHREADS = YesPlease
> NO_STRCASESTR = YesPlease
> NO_STRLCPY = YesPlease
> -+ USE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL = UnfortunatelyYes
> ++ NO_RESTARTABLE_SIGNALS = UnfortunatelyYes
> endif
>
> ## configure.ac ##
> @@ configure.ac: fi
> GIT_CONF_SUBST([ICONV_OMITS_BOM])
> fi
>
> -+# Define USE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL if don't have support for SA_RESTART or
> -+# prefer using ANSI C signal() over POSIX sigaction()
> ++# Define NO_RESTARTABLE_SIGNALS if don't have support for SA_RESTART
> +
> +AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether SA_RESTART is supported], [ac_cv_siginterrupt], [
> + AC_COMPILE_IFELSE(
> + [AC_LANG_PROGRAM([#include <signal.h>], [[
> -+ #ifdef SA_RESTART
> -+ #endif
> -+ siginterrupt(SIGCHLD, 1)
> -+ ]])],[ac_cv_siginterrupt=yes],[
> ++ #ifdef SA_RESTART
> ++ restartable signals supported
> ++ #endif
> ++ ]])],[
> + ac_cv_siginterrupt=no
> -+ USE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL=UnfortunatelyYes
> -+ ]
> ++ NO_RESTARTABLE_SIGNALS=UnfortunatelyYes
> ++ ], [ac_cv_siginterrupt=yes]
> + )
> +])
> -+GIT_CONF_SUBST([USE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL])
> ++GIT_CONF_SUBST([NO_RESTARTABLE_SIGNALS])
> +
> ## Checks for typedefs, structures, and compiler characteristics.
> AC_MSG_NOTICE([CHECKS for typedefs, structures, and compiler characteristics])
> @@ meson.build: else
> endif
>
> +if compiler.get_define('SA_RESTART', prefix: '#include <signal.h>') == ''
> -+ libgit_c_args += '-DUSE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL'
> ++ libgit_c_args += '-DNO_RESTARTABLE_SIGNALS'
> +endif
> +
> if not compiler.has_header('sys/select.h')
> -: ----------- > 2: 3f63479119f compat/mingw: allow sigaction(SIGCHLD)
> 2: 05d945aa1e5 ! 3: c66bda461f4 daemon: use sigaction() to install child_handler()
> @@ Commit message
> In a future change, the flags used for processing SIGCHLD will need to
> be updated, which is only possible by using sigaction().
>
> - Factor out the call to set the signal handler and use sigaction instead
> - of signal for the systems that allow that, which has the added benefit
> - of using BSD semantics reliably and therefore not needing the rearming
> - call.
> + Replace signal() with an equivalent invocation of sigaction(), which
> + has the added benefit of using BSD semantics reliably and therefore
> + not needing the rearming call in the signal handler.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
>
> ## daemon.c ##
> @@ daemon.c: static void handle(int incoming, struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t addrlen)
> - add_child(&cld, addr, addrlen);
> - }
> -
> --static void child_handler(int signo UNUSED)
> -+static void child_handler(int signo MAYBE_UNUSED)
> + static void child_handler(int signo UNUSED)
> {
> /*
> - * Otherwise empty handler because systemcalls will get interrupted
> @@ daemon.c: static void handle(int incoming, struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t addr
> + * upon signal receipt.
> */
> - signal(SIGCHLD, child_handler);
> -+#ifdef USE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL
> -+ /*
> -+ * SysV needs the handler to be rearmed, but this is known
> -+ * to trigger infinite recursion crashes at least in AIX.
> -+ */
> -+ signal(signo, child_handler);
> -+#endif
> }
>
> static int set_reuse_addr(int sockfd)
> @@ daemon.c: static void socksetup(struct string_list *listen_addr, int listen_port, struct s
> - }
> - }
>
> -+#ifndef USE_NON_POSIX_SIGNAL
> -+
> -+static void set_signal_handler(struct sigaction *psa)
> -+{
> -+ sigemptyset(&psa->sa_mask);
> -+ psa->sa_flags = SA_NOCLDSTOP | SA_RESTART;
> -+ psa->sa_handler = child_handler;
> -+ sigaction(SIGCHLD, psa, NULL);
> -+}
> -+
> -+#else
> -+
> -+static void set_signal_handler(struct sigaction *psa UNUSED)
> -+{
> -+ signal(SIGCHLD, child_handler);
> -+}
> -+
> static int service_loop(struct socketlist *socklist)
> {
> + struct sigaction sa;
> @@ daemon.c: static int service_loop(struct socketlist *socklist)
> }
>
> - signal(SIGCHLD, child_handler);
> -+ set_signal_handler(&sa);
> ++ sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
> ++ sa.sa_flags = SA_NOCLDSTOP | SA_RESTART;
> ++ sa.sa_handler = child_handler;
> ++ sigaction(SIGCHLD, &sa, NULL);
>
> for (;;) {
> check_dead_children();
> 3: b737e0389df ! 4: 851d663be0b daemon: explicitly allow EINTR during poll()
> @@ Commit message
> Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
>
> ## daemon.c ##
> -@@ daemon.c: static void set_signal_handler(struct sigaction *psa)
> - sigaction(SIGCHLD, psa, NULL);
> +@@ daemon.c: static void socksetup(struct string_list *listen_addr, int listen_port, struct s
> + }
> }
>
> ++#ifndef NO_RESTARTABLE_SIGNALS
> ++
> +static void set_sa_restart(struct sigaction *psa, int enable)
> +{
> + if (enable)
> @@ daemon.c: static void set_signal_handler(struct sigaction *psa)
> + sigaction(SIGCHLD, psa, NULL);
> +}
> +
> - #else
> -
> - static void set_signal_handler(struct sigaction *psa UNUSED)
> -@@ daemon.c: static void set_signal_handler(struct sigaction *psa UNUSED)
> - signal(SIGCHLD, child_handler);
> - }
> -
> ++#else
> ++
> +static void set_sa_restart(struct sigaction *psa UNUSED, int enable UNUSED)
> +{
> +}
>