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From: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
To: Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, philipoakley@iee.email,
	eschwartz@archlinux.org, Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] async_die_is_recursing: fix use of pthread_getspecific for Fedora
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 19:23:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPUEspjw4zypiywCBRc=y9uC4G5CKTE35GLVf_wDY436oO0C5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.1072.git.1635990465854.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 6:48 PM Victoria Dye via GitGit
> The fix imitates a workaround added in SELinux [2] by using the pointer to
> `ret` as the second argument to `pthread_getspecific`.

the SELinux workaround uses a valid global pointer though; while this won't

> diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
> index 7ef5cc712a9..a82cf69e7d3 100644
> --- a/run-command.c
> +++ b/run-command.c
> @@ -1099,7 +1099,7 @@ static NORETURN void die_async(const char *err, va_list params)
>  static int async_die_is_recursing(void)
>  {
>         void *ret = pthread_getspecific(async_die_counter);
> -       pthread_setspecific(async_die_counter, (void *)1);
> +       pthread_setspecific(async_die_counter, &ret); /* set to any non-NULL valid pointer */

I guess this would work, since the pointer is never dereferenced, but
the use of (void *)1 was hacky, and this warning seems like the right
time to make it less so.

Would a dynamically allocated pthread_local variable be a better
option,  or even a static global, since we don't care about its value
so no need to worry about any races?

If neither, would MAP_FAILED also trigger the warning?

Carlo

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-04  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-04  1:47 [PATCH] async_die_is_recursing: fix use of pthread_getspecific for Fedora Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2021-11-04  2:23 ` Carlo Arenas [this message]
2021-11-04  2:37   ` Jeff King
2021-11-04  3:20     ` Carlo Arenas
2021-11-04  5:56       ` Jeff King
2021-11-04  4:01 ` [PATCH v2] async_die_is_recursing: work around GCC v11.x issue on Fedora Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2021-11-04  5:58   ` Jeff King
2021-11-04  6:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-04  9:42     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-04 13:08       ` Derrick Stolee
2021-11-04 17:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-05 21:45     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-04  8:43   ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-11-04  9:46     ` Carlo Arenas
2021-11-04 16:33       ` Johannes Schindelin

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