From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>,
"git\@vger.kernel.org List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t0008: avoid SIGPIPE race condition on fifo
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:23:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbo67oig5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130712103522.GA4750@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:35:23 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Subject: [PATCH] t0008: avoid SIGPIPE race condition on fifo
>
> To test check-ignore's --stdin feature, we use two fifos to
> send and receive data. We carefully keep a descriptor to its
> input open so that it does not receive EOF between input
> lines. However, we do not do the same for its output. That
> means there is a potential race condition in which
> check-ignore has opened the output pipe once (when we read
> the first line), and then writes the second line before we
> have re-opened the pipe.
>
> In that case, check-ignore gets a SIGPIPE and dies. The
> outer shell then tries to open the output fifo but blocks
> indefinitely, because there is no writer. We can fix it by
> keeping a descriptor open through the whole procedure.
Ahh, figures.
I wish I were smart enough to figure that out immediately after
seeing the test that does funny things to "in" with "9".
Thanks.
> This should also help if check-ignore dies for any other
> reason (we would already have opened the fifo and would
> therefore not block, but just get EOF on read).
>
> However, we are technically still susceptible to
> check-ignore dying early, before we have opened the fifo.
> This is an unlikely race and shouldn't generally happen in
> practice, though, so we can hopefully ignore it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> t/t0008-ignores.sh | 12 ++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t0008-ignores.sh b/t/t0008-ignores.sh
> index a56db80..c29342d 100755
> --- a/t/t0008-ignores.sh
> +++ b/t/t0008-ignores.sh
> @@ -697,13 +697,21 @@ test_expect_success PIPE 'streaming support for --stdin' '
> # shell, and then echo to the fd. We make sure to close it at
> # the end, so that the subprocess does get EOF and dies
> # properly.
> + #
> + # Similarly, we must keep "out" open so that check-ignore does
> + # not ever get SIGPIPE trying to write to us. Not only would that
> + # produce incorrect results, but then there would be no writer on the
> + # other end of the pipe, and we would potentially block forever trying
> + # to open it.
> exec 9>in &&
> + exec 8<out &&
> test_when_finished "exec 9>&-" &&
> + test_when_finished "exec 8<&-" &&
> echo >&9 one &&
> - read response <out &&
> + read response <&8 &&
> echo "$response" | grep "^\.gitignore:1:one one" &&
> echo >&9 two &&
> - read response <out &&
> + read response <&8 &&
> echo "$response" | grep "^:: two"
> '
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-12 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-10 16:36 t0008 hang on streaming test (OS X) Brian Gernhardt
2013-07-10 20:35 ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-07-11 16:14 ` Brian Gernhardt
2013-07-11 13:34 ` Jeff King
2013-07-11 16:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-12 10:35 ` [PATCH] t0008: avoid SIGPIPE race condition on fifo Jeff King
2013-07-12 16:23 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-07-12 20:42 ` Jeff King
2013-07-12 16:42 ` Brian Gernhardt
2013-07-11 16:13 ` t0008 hang on streaming test (OS X) Brian Gernhardt
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