/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later */ #include #include #include #include #include #include "async.h" #include "errno-util.h" #include "fd-util.h" #include "log.h" #include "macro.h" #include "process-util.h" #include "signal-util.h" int asynchronous_sync(pid_t *ret_pid) { int r; /* This forks off an invocation of fork() as a child process, in order to initiate synchronization to * disk. Note that we implement this as helper process rather than thread as we don't want the sync() to hang our * original process ever, and a thread would do that as the process can't exit with threads hanging in blocking * syscalls. */ r = safe_fork("(sd-sync)", FORK_RESET_SIGNALS|FORK_CLOSE_ALL_FDS|(ret_pid ? 0 : FORK_DETACH), ret_pid); if (r < 0) return r; if (r == 0) { /* Child process */ sync(); _exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } return 0; } int asynchronous_fsync(int fd, pid_t *ret_pid) { int r; assert(fd >= 0); /* Same as asynchronous_sync() above, but calls fsync() on a specific fd */ r = safe_fork_full("(sd-fsync)", /* stdio_fds= */ NULL, /* except_fds= */ &fd, /* n_except_fds= */ 1, FORK_RESET_SIGNALS|FORK_CLOSE_ALL_FDS|(ret_pid ? 0 : FORK_DETACH), ret_pid); if (r < 0) return r; if (r == 0) { /* Child process */ fsync(fd); _exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } return 0; } /* We encode the fd to close in the userdata pointer as an unsigned value. The highest bit indicates whether * we need to fork again */ #define NEED_DOUBLE_FORK (1U << (sizeof(unsigned) * 8 - 1)) static int close_func(void *p) { unsigned v = PTR_TO_UINT(p); (void) prctl(PR_SET_NAME, (unsigned long*) "(sd-close)"); /* Note: 💣 This function is invoked in a child process created via glibc's clone() wrapper. In such * children memory allocation is not allowed, since glibc does not release malloc mutexes in * clone() 💣 */ if (v & NEED_DOUBLE_FORK) { pid_t pid; v &= ~NEED_DOUBLE_FORK; /* This inner child will be reparented to the subreaper/PID 1. Here we turn on SIGCHLD, so * that the reaper knows when it's time to reap. */ pid = clone_with_nested_stack(close_func, SIGCHLD|CLONE_FILES, UINT_TO_PTR(v)); if (pid >= 0) return 0; } close((int) v); /* no assert() here, we are in the child and the result would be eaten up anyway */ return 0; } int asynchronous_close(int fd) { unsigned v; pid_t pid; int r; /* This is supposed to behave similar to safe_close(), but actually invoke close() asynchronously, so * that it will never block. Ideally the kernel would have an API for this, but it doesn't, so we * work around it, and hide this as a far away as we can. * * It is important to us that we don't use threads (via glibc pthread) in PID 1, hence we'll do a * minimal subprocess instead which shares our fd table via CLONE_FILES. */ if (fd < 0) return -EBADF; /* already invalid */ PROTECT_ERRNO; v = (unsigned) fd; /* We want to fork off a process that is automatically reaped. For that we'd usually double-fork. But * we can optimize this a bit: if we are PID 1 or a subreaper anyway (the systemd service manager * process qualifies as this), we can avoid the double forking, since the double forked process would * be reparented back to us anyway. */ r = is_reaper_process(); if (r < 0) log_debug_errno(r, "Cannot determine if we are a reaper process, assuming we are not: %m"); if (r <= 0) v |= NEED_DOUBLE_FORK; pid = clone_with_nested_stack(close_func, CLONE_FILES | ((v & NEED_DOUBLE_FORK) ? 0 : SIGCHLD), UINT_TO_PTR(v)); if (pid < 0) safe_close(fd); /* local fallback */ else if (v & NEED_DOUBLE_FORK) { /* Reap the intermediate child. Key here is that we specify __WCLONE, since we didn't ask for * any signal to be sent to us on process exit, and otherwise waitid() would refuse waiting * then. * * We usually prefer calling waitid(), but before kernel 4.7 it didn't support __WCLONE while * waitpid() did. Hence let's use waitpid() here, it's good enough for our purposes here. */ for (;;) if (waitpid(pid, NULL, __WCLONE) >= 0 || errno != EINTR) break; } return -EBADF; /* return an invalidated fd */ } int asynchronous_rm_rf(const char *p, RemoveFlags flags) { int r; assert(p); /* Forks off a child that destroys the specified path. This will be best effort only, i.e. the child * will attempt to do its thing, but we won't wait for it or check its success. */ r = safe_fork("(sd-rmrf)", FORK_RESET_SIGNALS|FORK_CLOSE_ALL_FDS|FORK_DETACH, NULL); if (r != 0) return r; /* Child */ r = rm_rf(p, flags); if (r < 0) { log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to rm -rf '%s', ignoring: %m", p); _exit(EXIT_FAILURE); /* This is a detached process, hence no one really cares, but who knows * maybe it's good for debugging/tracing to return an exit code * indicative of our failure here. */ } _exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }