Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#1232 closed defect (fixed)

signal handling smashes memory management

Reported by: joergw Owned by:
Priority: critical Milestone: 4.11.0
Component: core libraries Version: 4.10.x
Keywords: signal handling, runtime Cc:
Estimated difficulty:

Description

The signal handler stores a references relative (1000 words off) to the stack pointer of in effect during signal handlers invocation.

This may result in an overflow (if the stack pointer happens to be close to the border of the virtual address space.

It does (reproducible) set C_stack_limit to some point within the stack of unrelated pthreads. And, if many signals are dispatched, does overwrite saved_stack_limit.

See also http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2015-12/msg00006.html

Patch attached.

Attachments (1)

0008-Allowsignalhandlerstobedispatchedtomultiplethreads.patch (2.3 KB) - added by joergw 9 years ago.
Patch allowing signal handlers to be dispatched to any pthread

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Change History (3)

Changed 9 years ago by joergw

Patch allowing signal handlers to be dispatched to any pthread

comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by sjamaan

Milestone: someday4.11.0

comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by sjamaan

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Patch applied as 8294683 (master) and 169cb27 (chicken-5)

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