um: fix abort

b2db2199 · Richard Weinberger <[email protected]> · 2011-05-17 15:44:11 -07:00

os_dump_core() uses abort() to terminate UML in case of an fatal error.

glibc's abort() calls raise(SIGABRT) which makes use of tgkill().
tgkill() has no effect within UML's kernel threads because they are not
pthreads.  As fallback abort() executes an invalid instruction to
terminate the process.  Therefore UML gets killed by SIGSEGV and leaves a
ugly log entry in the host's kernel ring buffer.

To get rid of this we use our own abort routine.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Commit: b2db21997f43907f54500edaf063253ca2a186f9
Parents: d6c438b6

Changes

1 files changed · +22 −1

File	Status	Add	Del	Content
arch/um/os-Linux/util.c	modified	+22	−1	View file

arch/um/os-Linux/util.c

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diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
index 6ea7797..42827ca 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -75,6 +76,26 @@ void setup_hostinfo(char *buf, int len)
 		 host.release, host.version, host.machine);
 }
 
+/*
+ * We cannot use glibc's abort(). It makes use of tgkill() which
+ * has no effect within UML's kernel threads.
+ * After that glibc would execute an invalid instruction to kill
+ * the calling process and UML crashes with SIGSEGV.
+ */
+static inline void __attribute__ ((noreturn)) uml_abort(void)
+{
+	sigset_t sig;
+
+	fflush(NULL);
+
+	if (!sigemptyset(&sig) && !sigaddset(&sig, SIGABRT))
+		sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &sig, 0);
+
+	for (;;)
+		if (kill(getpid(), SIGABRT) < 0)
+			exit(127);
+}
+
 void os_dump_core(void)
 {
 	int pid;
@@ -116,5 +137,5 @@ void os_dump_core(void)
 	while ((pid = waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG | __WALL)) > 0)
 		os_kill_ptraced_process(pid, 0);
 
-	abort();
+	uml_abort();
 }