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title: "Race Conditions in Signal Handlers"
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pubDate: 2023-07-26 16:08:12 -0500
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pubDate: "2023-07-26 16:08:12 -0500"
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description: "Signals offer a unique, low-level way of communicating with processes. But under certain circumstances, they can kill processes, even when they shouldn't."
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tags: ["tar", "signals", "interrupt", "handler", "process", "unix", "race-condition"]
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tags:
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[
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"tar",
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"signals",
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"interrupt",
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"handler",
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"process",
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"unix",
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"race-condition",
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]
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---
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Signals offer a unique, low-level way of communicating with processes. But under certain circumstances, they can kill
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@@ -43,6 +52,11 @@ operations.
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By starting `tar` with the `--totals` flag, it would emit statistics upon completion. But to request
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information during the operation, a signal must be chosen, like so: `tar -x -f archive.tar --totals=SIGUSR1`.
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```bash
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$ tar -xf image.tar --totals
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Total bytes read: 43048960 (42MiB, 23MiB/s)
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```
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Emitting a signal can be done with the `kill` command, like so: `kill -USR1 <pid>`. This will send the `USR1` signal
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to the process with the given PID. The `USR1` signal is a user-defined signal, and is not used by the system.
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@@ -50,7 +64,7 @@ And so, my plan was to start a tar process as usual with the `--totals` flag, an
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process occasionally to query an extraction operation's progress. In Python, I used the `subprocess` module to start
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and manage the process.
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```python
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```python {8,19}
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import os
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import subprocess
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import signal
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@@ -66,13 +80,14 @@ process = subprocess.Popen(command, preexec_fn=os.setsid, stderr=subprocess.PIPE
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try:
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while True:
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# Both of these don't work! Why?
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# process.send_signal(signal.SIGUSR1)
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# os.killpg(os.getpgid(process.pid), signal.SIGUSR1)
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# Ping the subprocess with SIGUSR1 signal
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# NOTWORK: process.send_signal(signal.SIGUSR1)
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# NOTWORK: os.killpg(os.getpgid(process.pid), signal.SIGUSR1)
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subprocess.Popen(["kill", "-SIGUSR1", str(process.pid)])
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print(process.stderr.readline().decode("utf-8").strip())
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# print(process.stdout.readline().decode("utf-8").strip())
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# Wait for a specified interval
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time.sleep(1.9) # Adjust the interval as needed
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@@ -115,44 +130,40 @@ and of course: _signal handlers_.
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See below, the contents of `/proc/<pid>/status` for a process:
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```proc title="/proc/100162/status"
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1 │ Name: Isolated Web Co
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2 │ Umask: 0002
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3 │ State: S (sleeping)
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4 │ Tgid: 100162
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5 │ Ngid: 0
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6 │ Pid: 100162
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7 │ PPid: 6225
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8 │ TracerPid: 0
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9 │ Uid: 1000 1000 1000 1000
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10 │ Gid: 1000 1000 1000 1000
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11 │ FDSize: 512
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...
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34 │ THP_enabled: 1
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35 │ Threads: 27
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36 │ SigQ: 0/62382
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37 │ SigPnd: 0000000000000000
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38 │ ShdPnd: 0000000000000000
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39 │ SigBlk: 0000000000000000
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40 │ SigIgn: 0000000001011002
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41 │ SigCgt: 0000000f40800ef8 <--- Focus on this line.
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42 │ CapInh: 0000000000000000
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43 │ CapPrm: 0000000000000000
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```
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File: /proc/100162/status
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1 │ Name: Isolated Web Co
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2 │ Umask: 0002
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3 │ State: S (sleeping)
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4 │ Tgid: 100162
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5 │ Ngid: 0
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6 │ Pid: 100162
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7 │ PPid: 6225
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8 │ TracerPid: 0
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9 │ Uid: 1000 1000 1000 1000
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10 │ Gid: 1000 1000 1000 1000
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11 │ FDSize: 512
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12 │ Groups: 4 27 123 1000 1001
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13 │ NStgid: 100162
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14 │ NSpid: 100162
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...
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...
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...
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33 │ CoreDumping: 0
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34 │ THP_enabled: 1
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35 │ Threads: 27
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36 │ SigQ: 0/62382
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37 │ SigPnd: 0000000000000000
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38 │ ShdPnd: 0000000000000000
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39 │ SigBlk: 0000000000000000
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40 │ SigIgn: 0000000001011002
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41 │ SigCgt: 0000000f40800ef8 <--- Focus on this line.
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42 │ CapInh: 0000000000000000
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43 │ CapPrm: 0000000000000000
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```
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It's quite a long file (line numbers added for reference), but it contains a lot of useful information about a given process.
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We're interested in `SigCgt` (line 41), which is a bitmask of signals that are caught by the process. The specific bit depends on the platform, but in Python, this can be found in the signal module:
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```python
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>>> from signal import SIGUSR1
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>>> print(SIGUSR1)
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>>> SIGUSR1
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10
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```
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