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patch #1633: Terminated with C-c rpctrace:d programs hang

Submitter:  Ognyan Kulev <ogi>
Submitted:  Mon 16 Jun 2003 12:53:06 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  marcus Open/Closed:  Open
Planned Release:  None
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Sat 16 Aug 2003 10:22:29 PM UTC, comment #4: 

I have reverted the patch on Rolands request.  The main issue is that proc sends a message to an untrusted port (the thread port provided by the user).

Here is Roland's analysis of alternative approaches:
rpctrace really ought to be wrapping the thread control ports as it does
the task port.  There is a thread_set_special_port that can do this in just
the same way.  The problem is that it is not aware of threads being
created.  I think the same problem exists with newly-created tasks.  The
task port from a task_create and the thread port from a thread_create get
traced like other ports and so rpctrace sees the messages sent by the exec
server and so forth.  But once the new task does mach_task_self, it gets
its own real port and rpctrace is out of the picture.

rpctrace needs to grok task_create and thread_create reply messages
specially and no only wrap those ports, but perform set_special_port on
them.  A kludge would be to grok those msgids and assume they are right.
Another approach is to maintain for each traced port whether we think it is
a task, a thread, or something else, and for send-once rights if they are
the reply port for a task_create or thread_create or not.  Starting out
with the task port, you know it is a task.  If a task gets a task_create
message, the reply port is a task_create reply port; if a task gets a
thread_create message, the reply port is a thread_create reply port.  If
one of those special reply port gets its corresponding reply message ID,
the port therein is a task/thread port and rpctrace tweaks it.  This plan
won't catch task or thread ports that are passed in to a traced program and
start tracing them, but that's probably not something you want anyway
(e.g. if you are tracing proc, then you might not want tracing proc_dostop
to make you start tracing that thread).

rpctrace doesn't yet support "attach" anyway, but if it did then it would
need to not just interpose on the live task port, but find all its threads
and interpose on their thread ports individually.

Marcus Brinkmann <marcus>
Group administrator
Sat 09 Aug 2003 04:47:50 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Thanks, I have applied the patch now.

Marcus Brinkmann <marcus>
Group administrator
Sun 03 Aug 2003 02:05:18 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Yes, after replacing proc with patched one, terminating traced program with C-c  or kill behaves as expected.

Ognyan Kulev <ogi>
Group Member
Sat 02 Aug 2003 09:51:51 PM UTC, comment #1: 

One question:  Have you actually tested if it fixes the bug?
If you have tested it, I am willing to commit it (unless some objections come from some other maintainer, which doesn't seem to be the case).

Marcus Brinkmann <marcus>
Group administrator
Mon 16 Jun 2003 12:53:06 PM UTC, original submission:  
Ognyan Kulev <ogi>
Group Member

 

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file #5818:  patch_item_1633.patch added by ogi (1015B - text/plain - patch item 1633)

 

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