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Implement a portable fix for SIGCHLD crashes (#18)
As previously reported in rhbz#1112306 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112306), ksh may crash when receiving SIGCHLD because GCC's optimizer will fail to generate `addl` and `sub` instructions to increment and decrement `job.in_critical` in the `job_subsave` function. This bug *does* occur in GCC 10 with `-O2`, but not `-O1`; it doesn't appear this bug has been fixed. As a reference, here is the relevant debug assembly output of `job_subsave` when KSH is compiled with `CCFLAGS` set to `-g -O1`: 0000000000034c97 <job_subsave>: void *job_subsave(void) { 34c97: 53 push %rbx struct back_save *bp = new_of(struct back_save,0); 34c98: bf 18 00 00 00 mov $0x18,%edi 34c9d: e8 34 4a 0a 00 callq d96d6 <_ast_malloc> 34ca2: 48 89 c3 mov %rax,%rbx job_lock(); 34ca5: 83 05 3c 50 13 00 01 addl $0x1,0x13503c(%rip) # 169ce8 <job+0x28> *bp = bck; 34cac: 66 0f 6f 05 4c 5a 13 movdqa 0x135a4c(%rip),%xmm0 # 16a700 <bck> 34cb3: 00 34cb4: 0f 11 00 movups %xmm0,(%rax) 34cb7: 48 8b 05 52 5a 13 00 mov 0x135a52(%rip),%rax # 16a710 <bck+0x10> 34cbe: 48 89 43 10 mov %rax,0x10(%rbx) bp->prev = bck.prev; 34cc2: 48 8b 05 47 5a 13 00 mov 0x135a47(%rip),%rax # 16a710 <bck+0x10> 34cc9: 48 89 43 10 mov %rax,0x10(%rbx) bck.count = 0; 34ccd: c7 05 29 5a 13 00 00 movl $0x0,0x135a29(%rip) # 16a700 <bck> 34cd4: 00 00 00 bck.list = 0; 34cd7: 48 c7 05 26 5a 13 00 movq $0x0,0x135a26(%rip) # 16a708 <bck+0x8> 34cde: 00 00 00 00 bck.prev = bp; 34ce2: 48 89 1d 27 5a 13 00 mov %rbx,0x135a27(%rip) # 16a710 <bck+0x10> job_unlock(); 34ce9: 8b 05 f9 4f 13 00 mov 0x134ff9(%rip),%eax # 169ce8 <job+0x28> 34cef: 83 e8 01 sub $0x1,%eax 34cf2: 89 05 f0 4f 13 00 mov %eax,0x134ff0(%rip) # 169ce8 <job+0x28> 34cf8: 75 2b jne 34d25 <job_subsave+0x8e> 34cfa: 8b 3d ec 4f 13 00 mov 0x134fec(%rip),%edi # 169cec <job+0x2c> 34d00: 85 ff test %edi,%edi 34d02: 74 21 je 34d25 <job_subsave+0x8e> 34d04: c7 05 da 4f 13 00 01 movl $0x1,0x134fda(%rip) # 169ce8 <job+0x28> When `-O2` is used instead of `-O1`, the `addl` and `sub` instructions for incrementing and decrementing the lock are removed. GCC instead generates a broken `mov` instruction for `job_lock` and removes the initial `sub` instruction in job_unlock (this is also seen in Red Hat's bug report): job_lock(); *bp = bck; 37d7c: 66 0f 6f 05 7c 79 14 movdqa 0x14797c(%rip),%xmm0 # 17f700 <bck> 37d83: 00 struct back_save *bp = new_of(struct back_save,0); 37d84: 49 89 c4 mov %rax,%r12 job_lock(); 37d87: 8b 05 5b 6f 14 00 mov 0x146f5b(%rip),%eax # 17ece8 <job+0x28> ... job_unlock(); 37dc6: 89 05 1c 6f 14 00 mov %eax,0x146f1c(%rip) # 17ece8 <job+0x28> 37dcc: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax 37dce: 75 2b jne 37dfb <job_subsave+0x8b> The original patch works around this bug by using the legacy `__sync_fetch_and_add/sub` GCC builtins. This forces GCC to generate instructions that change the lock with `lock addl`, `lock xadd` and `lock subl`: job_lock(); 37d9f: f0 83 05 41 6f 14 00 lock addl $0x1,0x146f41(%rip) # 17ece8 <job+0x28> 37da6: 01 ... job_unlock(); 37deb: f0 0f c1 05 f5 6e 14 lock xadd %eax,0x146ef5(%rip) # 17ece8 <job+0x28> 37df2: 00 37df3: 83 f8 01 cmp $0x1,%eax 37df6: 74 08 je 37e00 <job_subsave+0x70> ... 37e25: 74 11 je 37e38 <job_subsave+0xa8> 37e27: f0 83 2d b9 6e 14 00 lock subl $0x1,0x146eb9(%rip) # 17ece8 <job+0x28> While this does work, it isn't portable. This patch implements a different workaround for this compiler bug. If `job_lock` is put at the beginning of `job_subsave`, GCC will generate the required `addl` and `sub` instructions: job_lock(); 37d67: 83 05 7a 5f 14 00 01 addl $0x1,0x145f7a(%rip) # 17dce8 <job+0x28> ... job_unlock(); 37dbb: 83 e8 01 sub $0x1,%eax 37dbe: 89 05 24 5f 14 00 mov %eax,0x145f24(%rip) # 17dce8 <job+0x28> It is odd that moving a single line of code fixes this problem, although GCC _should_ have generated these instructions from the original code anyway. I'll note that this isn't the only way to get these instructions to generate. The problem also seems to go away when inserting almost anything else inside of the code for `job_subsave`. This is just a simple workaround for a strange compiler bug.
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