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slave: use an event FD to communicate errors after fork before exec

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Replace the pipe we used to communicate errors after fork(), but
before exec() to the parent process with an event FD.

The overhead in the kernel is much lower to setup an event fd,
compared to a pipe.
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Daniel Eklöf 2020-08-01 09:33:43 +02:00
parent c8e78674ed
commit 027a8de6f5
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1 changed files with 17 additions and 20 deletions
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@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/eventfd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#define LOG_MODULE "slave"
@ -231,7 +232,7 @@ slave_exec(int ptmx, char *argv[], int err_fd, bool login_shell,
execvp(file, argv);
err:
(void)!write(err_fd, &errno, sizeof(errno));
(void)!write(err_fd, &(uint64_t){errno}, sizeof(uint64_t));
if (pts != -1)
close(pts);
if (ptmx != -1)
@ -245,9 +246,9 @@ slave_spawn(int ptmx, int argc, const char *cwd, char *const *argv,
const char *term_env, const char *conf_shell, bool login_shell,
const user_notifications_t *notifications)
{
int fork_pipe[2];
if (pipe2(fork_pipe, O_CLOEXEC) < 0) {
LOG_ERRNO("failed to create pipe");
int error_fd = eventfd(0, EFD_CLOEXEC);
if (error_fd < 0) {
LOG_ERRNO("failed to create event FD");
return -1;
}
@ -255,18 +256,16 @@ slave_spawn(int ptmx, int argc, const char *cwd, char *const *argv,
switch (pid) {
case -1:
LOG_ERRNO("failed to fork");
close(fork_pipe[0]);
close(fork_pipe[1]);
close(error_fd);
return -1;
case 0:
/* Child */
close(fork_pipe[0]); /* Close read end */
if (chdir(cwd) < 0) {
const int _errno = errno;
LOG_ERRNO("failed to change working directory");
(void)!write(fork_pipe[1], &_errno, sizeof(_errno));
(void)!write(error_fd, &(uint64_t){_errno}, sizeof(uint64_t));
_exit(_errno);
}
@ -281,7 +280,7 @@ slave_spawn(int ptmx, int argc, const char *cwd, char *const *argv,
{
const int _errno = errno;
LOG_ERRNO_P("failed to restore signals", errno);
(void)!write(fork_pipe[1], &_errno, sizeof(_errno));
(void)!write(error_fd, &(uint64_t){_errno}, sizeof(uint64_t));
_exit(_errno);
}
@ -293,9 +292,10 @@ slave_spawn(int ptmx, int argc, const char *cwd, char *const *argv,
if (argc == 0) {
char *shell_copy = strdup(conf_shell);
if (!tokenize_cmdline(shell_copy, &_shell_argv)) {
const int _errno = errno;
free(shell_copy);
(void)!write(fork_pipe[1], &errno, sizeof(errno));
_exit(0);
(void)!write(error_fd, &(uint64_t){_errno}, sizeof(uint64_t));
_exit(_errno);
}
shell_argv = _shell_argv;
} else {
@ -311,26 +311,23 @@ slave_spawn(int ptmx, int argc, const char *cwd, char *const *argv,
if (is_valid_shell(shell_argv[0]))
setenv("SHELL", shell_argv[0], 1);
slave_exec(ptmx, shell_argv, fork_pipe[1], login_shell, notifications);
slave_exec(ptmx, shell_argv, error_fd, login_shell, notifications);
assert(false);
break;
default: {
close(fork_pipe[1]); /* Close write end */
LOG_DBG("slave has PID %d", pid);
int _errno;
static_assert(sizeof(errno) == sizeof(_errno), "errno size mismatch");
ssize_t ret = read(fork_pipe[0], &_errno, sizeof(_errno));
close(fork_pipe[0]);
uint64_t _errno;
ssize_t ret = read(error_fd, &_errno, sizeof(_errno));
close(error_fd);
if (ret < 0) {
LOG_ERRNO("failed to read from pipe");
LOG_ERRNO("failed to read from error FD");
return -1;
} else if (ret == sizeof(_errno)) {
LOG_ERRNO_P(
"%s: failed to execute", _errno, argc == 0 ? conf_shell : argv[0]);
"%s: failed to execute", (int)_errno, argc == 0 ? conf_shell : argv[0]);
return -1;
} else
LOG_DBG("%s: successfully started", conf_shell);