If we create a thread with QEMU_THREAD_DETACHED mode, QEMU may get a segfault in a low probability.
The backtrace is: #0 0x00007f46c60291d7 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56 #1 0x00007f46c602a8c8 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:90 #2 0x00000000008543c9 in PAT_abort () #3 0x000000000085140d in patchIllInsHandler () #4 <signal handler called> #5 pthread_detach (th=139933037614848) at pthread_detach.c:50 #6 0x0000000000829759 in qemu_thread_create (thread=thread@entry=0x7ffdaa8205e0, name=name@entry=0x94d94a "io-task-worker", start_routine=start_routine@entry=0x7eb9a0 <qio_task_thread_worker>, arg=arg@entry=0x3f5cf70, mode=mode@entry=1) at util/qemu_thread_posix.c:512 #7 0x00000000007ebc96 in qio_task_run_in_thread (task=0x31db2c0, worker=worker@entry=0x7e7e40 <qio_channel_socket_connect_worker>, opaque=0xcd23380, destroy=0x7f1180 <qapi_free_SocketAddress>) at io/task.c:141 #8 0x00000000007e7f33 in qio_channel_socket_connect_async (ioc=ioc@entry=0x626c0b0, addr=<optimized out>, callback=callback@entry=0x55e080 <qemu_chr_socket_connected>, opaque=opaque@entry=0x42862c0, destroy=destroy@entry=0x0) at io/channel_socket.c:194 #9 0x000000000055bdd1 in socket_reconnect_timeout (opaque=0x42862c0) at qemu_char.c:4744 #10 0x00007f46c72483b3 in g_timeout_dispatch () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #11 0x00007f46c724799a in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #12 0x000000000076c646 in glib_pollfds_poll () at main_loop.c:228 #13 0x000000000076c6eb in os_host_main_loop_wait (timeout=348000000) at main_loop.c:273 #14 0x000000000076c815 in main_loop_wait (nonblocking=nonblocking@entry=0) at main_loop.c:521 #15 0x000000000056a511 in main_loop () at vl.c:2076 #16 0x0000000000420705 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, envp=<optimized out>) at vl.c:4940 The root cause of this problem is a bug of glibc(version 2.17,the latest version has the same bug), let's see what happened in glibc's code. Here is the code slice of pthread_detach.c 25 int 26 pthread_detach (pthread_t th) 27 { 28 struct pthread *pd = (struct pthread *) th; 29 30 /* Make sure the descriptor is valid. */ 31 if (INVALID_NOT_TERMINATED_TD_P (pd)) 32 /* Not a valid thread handle. */ 34 return ESRCH; 35 36 int result = 0; 37 /* Mark the thread as detached. */ 38 if (atomic_compare_and_exchange_bool_acq (&pd->joinid, pd, NULL)) 39 { 40 /* There are two possibilities here. First, the thread might 41 already be detached. In this case we return EINVAL. 42 Otherwise there might already be a waiter. The standard does 43 not mention what happens in this case. */ 44 if (IS_DETACHED (pd)) 45 result = EINVAL; 46 } 47 else 48 /* Check whether the thread terminated meanwhile. In this case we 49 will just free the TCB. */ 50 if ((pd->cancelhandling & EXITING_BITMASK) != 0) 51 /* Note that the code in __free_tcb makes sure each thread 52 control block is freed only once. */ 53 __free_tcb (pd); 54 return result; 55} QEMU get a segfault at line 50, becasue pd is an invalid address. pd is still valid at line 38 when set pd->joinid = pd, at this moment, created thread is just exiting(only keeps runing for a short time), created thread is running in code of start_thread: 404 /* If the thread is detached free the TCB. */ 405 if (IS_DETACHED (pd)) 406 /* Free the TCB. */ 407 __free_tcb (pd); created thread found that pd is detached, so it freed pd, in this case, pd became an invalid address. I rewrite qemu_thread_create to move detach_thread from creating thread to created to avoid this concurrency problem. Change-Id: I2293d5be1526241cf58785d701b922f2ffc6491b Signed-off-by: linzhecheng <linzhech...@huawei.com> --- include/qemu/thread-posix.h | 8 ++++++++ include/qemu/thread.h | 1 + util/qemu-thread-posix.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/qemu/thread-posix.h b/include/qemu/thread-posix.h index f3f47e426f..d855c15dab 100644 --- a/include/qemu/thread-posix.h +++ b/include/qemu/thread-posix.h @@ -44,4 +44,12 @@ struct QemuThread { pthread_t thread; }; +struct QemuThread_args { + void *(*start_routine)(void *); + void *arg; + char *name; + int mode; +}; + + #endif diff --git a/include/qemu/thread.h b/include/qemu/thread.h index 9910f49b3a..db365242da 100644 --- a/include/qemu/thread.h +++ b/include/qemu/thread.h @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ typedef struct QemuSemaphore QemuSemaphore; typedef struct QemuEvent QemuEvent; typedef struct QemuLockCnt QemuLockCnt; typedef struct QemuThread QemuThread; +typedef struct QemuThread_args QemuThread_args; #ifdef _WIN32 #include "qemu/thread-win32.h" diff --git a/util/qemu-thread-posix.c b/util/qemu-thread-posix.c index 7306475899..07b5838862 100644 --- a/util/qemu-thread-posix.c +++ b/util/qemu-thread-posix.c @@ -489,6 +489,30 @@ static void qemu_thread_set_name(QemuThread *thread, const char *name) #endif } +static void *qemu_thread_start(void *args) +{ + QemuThread_args *qemu_thread_args; + void *ret; + QemuThread qemu_thread; + + qemu_thread_args = (QemuThread_args *)args; + qemu_thread_get_self(&qemu_thread); + + if (qemu_thread_args->name) { + qemu_thread_set_name(&qemu_thread, qemu_thread_args->name); + g_free(qemu_thread_args->name); + } + + if (qemu_thread_args->mode == QEMU_THREAD_DETACHED) { + pthread_detach(qemu_thread.thread); + } + ret = qemu_thread_args->start_routine(qemu_thread_args->arg); + + g_free(qemu_thread_args); + return ret; +} + + void qemu_thread_create(QemuThread *thread, const char *name, void *(*start_routine)(void*), void *arg, int mode) @@ -496,6 +520,7 @@ void qemu_thread_create(QemuThread *thread, const char *name, sigset_t set, oldset; int err; pthread_attr_t attr; + QemuThread_args *qemu_thread_args; err = pthread_attr_init(&attr); if (err) { @@ -505,20 +530,18 @@ void qemu_thread_create(QemuThread *thread, const char *name, /* Leave signal handling to the iothread. */ sigfillset(&set); pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &set, &oldset); - err = pthread_create(&thread->thread, &attr, start_routine, arg); + + qemu_thread_args = g_new0(QemuThread_args, 1); + qemu_thread_args->mode = mode; + qemu_thread_args->name = name_threads ? g_strdup_printf("%s", name) : NULL; + qemu_thread_args->start_routine = start_routine; + qemu_thread_args->arg = arg; + + err = pthread_create(&thread->thread, &attr, + qemu_thread_start, qemu_thread_args); if (err) error_exit(err, __func__); - if (name_threads) { - qemu_thread_set_name(thread, name); - } - - if (mode == QEMU_THREAD_DETACHED) { - err = pthread_detach(thread->thread); - if (err) { - error_exit(err, __func__); - } - } pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &oldset, NULL); pthread_attr_destroy(&attr); -- 2.12.2.windows.2