Ian proposed an improved way of handling signals masks in Go, motivated
by a problem where the Android java runtime expects certain signals to
be blocked for all JVM threads. Discussion here
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/_TSCkQHJt6g
Ian's text is used in the following:
A Go program always needs to have the synchronous signals enabled.
These are the signals for which _SigPanic is set in sigtable, namely
SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGFPE.
A Go program that uses the os/signal package, and calls signal.Notify,
needs to have at least one thread which is not blocking that signal,
but it doesn't matter much which one.
Unix programs do not change signal mask across execve. They inherit
signal masks across fork. The shell uses this fact to some extent;
for example, the job control signals (SIGTTIN, SIGTTOU, SIGTSTP) are
blocked for commands run due to backquote quoting or $().
Our current position on signal masks was not thought out. We wandered
into step by step, e.g., http://golang.org/cl/7323067 .
This CL does the following:
Introduce a new platform hook, msigsave, that saves the signal mask of
the current thread to m.sigsave.
Call msigsave from needm and newm.
In minit grab set up the signal mask from m.sigsave and unblock the
essential synchronous signals, and SIGILL, SIGTRAP, SIGPROF, SIGSTKFLT
(for systems that have it).
In unminit, restore the signal mask from m.sigsave.
The first time that os/signal.Notify is called, start a new thread whose
only purpose is to update its signal mask to make sure signals for
signal.Notify are unblocked on at least one thread.
The effect on Go programs will be that if they are invoked with some
non-synchronous signals blocked, those signals will normally be
ignored. Previously, those signals would mostly be ignored. A change
in behaviour will occur for programs started with any of these signals
blocked, if they receive the signal: SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGABRT,
SIGTERM. Previously those signals would always cause a crash (unless
using the os/signal package); with this change, they will be ignored
if the program is started with the signal blocked (and does not use
the os/signal package).
./all.bash completes successfully on linux/amd64.
OpenBSD is missing the implementation.
Change-Id: I188098ba7eb85eae4c14861269cc466f2aa40e8c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10173
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Forward signals to signal handlers installed before Go installs its own,
under certain circumstances. In particular, as iant@ suggests, signals are
forwarded iff:
(1) a non-SIG_DFL signal handler existed before Go, and
(2) signal is synchronous (i.e., one of SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGFPE), and
(3a) signal occured on a non-Go thread, or
(3b) signal occurred on a Go thread but in CGo code.
Supported only on Linux, for now.
Change-Id: I403219ee47b26cf65da819fb86cf1ec04d3e25f5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8712
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
There is currently no way to ignore signals using the os/signal package.
It is possible to catch a signal and do nothing but this is not the same
as ignoring it. The new function Ignore allows a set of signals to be
ignored. The new function Reset allows the initial handlers for a set of
signals to be restored.
Fixes#5572
Change-Id: I5c0f07956971e3a9ff9b9d9631e6e3a08c20df15
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3580
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Rename "gothrow" to "throw" now that the C version of "throw"
is no longer needed.
This change is purely mechanical except in panic.go where the
old version of "throw" has been deleted.
sed -i "" 's/[[:<:]]gothrow[[:>:]]/throw/g' runtime/*.go
Change-Id: Icf0752299c35958b92870a97111c67bcd9159dc3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2150
Reviewed-by: Minux Ma <minux@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Cheney <dave@cheney.net>
These signals are used by glibc to broadcast setuid/setgid to all
threads and to send pthread cancellations. Unlike other signals, the
Go runtime does not intercept these because they must invoke the libc
handlers (see issues #3871 and #6997). However, because 1) these
signals may be issued asynchronously by a thread running C code to
another thread running Go code and 2) glibc does not set SA_ONSTACK
for its handlers, glibc's signal handler may be run on a Go stack.
Signal frames range from 1.5K on amd64 to many kilobytes on ppc64, so
this may overflow the Go stack and corrupt heap (or other stack) data.
Fix this by ensuring that these signal handlers have the SA_ONSTACK
flag (but not otherwise taking over the handler).
This has been a problem since Go 1.1, but it's likely that people
haven't encountered it because it only affects setuid/setgid and
pthread_cancel.
Fixes#9600.
Change-Id: I6cf5f5c2d3aa48998d632f61f1ddc2778dcfd300
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/1887
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
This code overused macros and could not be
converted automatically. Instead a new sigctxt
type had to be defined for each os/arch combination,
with a common (implicit) interface used by the
arch-specific signal handler code.
[This CL is part of the removal of C code from package runtime.
See golang.org/s/dev.cc for an overview.]
LGTM=r
R=r
CC=austin, dvyukov, golang-codereviews, iant, khr
https://golang.org/cl/168500044
