lib/fatal-signal.c

/* Emergency actions in case of a fatal signal.
   Copyright (C) 2003-2004, 2006-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2003.

   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */


#include <config.h>

/* Specification.  */
#include "fatal-signal.h"

#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include "sig-handler.h"
#include "xalloc.h"

#define SIZEOF(a) (sizeof(a) / sizeof(a[0]))

/* ========================================================================= */


/* The list of fatal signals.
   These are those signals whose default action is to terminate the process
   without a core dump, except
     SIGKILL - because it cannot be caught,
     SIGALRM SIGUSR1 SIGUSR2 SIGPOLL SIGIO SIGLOST - because applications
       often use them for their own purpose,
     SIGPROF SIGVTALRM - because they are used for profiling,
     SIGSTKFLT - because it is more similar to SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS,
     SIGSYS - because it is more similar to SIGABRT, SIGSEGV,
     SIGPWR - because it of too special use,
     SIGRTMIN...SIGRTMAX - because they are reserved for application use.
   plus
     SIGXCPU, SIGXFSZ - because they are quite similar to SIGTERM.  */

static int fatal_signals[] =
  {
    /* ISO C 99 signals.  */
#ifdef SIGINT
    SIGINT,
#endif
#ifdef SIGTERM
    SIGTERM,
#endif
    /* POSIX:2001 signals.  */
#ifdef SIGHUP
    SIGHUP,
#endif
#ifdef SIGPIPE
    SIGPIPE,
#endif
    /* BSD signals.  */
#ifdef SIGXCPU
    SIGXCPU,
#endif
#ifdef SIGXFSZ
    SIGXFSZ,
#endif
    /* Native Windows signals.  */
#ifdef SIGBREAK
    SIGBREAK,
#endif
    0
  };

#define num_fatal_signals (SIZEOF (fatal_signals) - 1)

/* Eliminate signals whose signal handler is SIG_IGN.  */

static void
init_fatal_signals (void)
{
  static bool fatal_signals_initialized = false;
  if (!fatal_signals_initialized)
    {
      size_t i;

      for (i = 0; i < num_fatal_signals; i++)
        {
          struct sigaction action;

          if (sigaction (fatal_signals[i], NULL, &action) >= 0
              && get_handler (&action) == SIG_IGN)
            fatal_signals[i] = -1;
        }

      fatal_signals_initialized = true;
    }
}


/* ========================================================================= */


typedef void (*action_t) (void);

/* Type of an entry in the actions array.
   The 'action' field is accessed from within the fatal_signal_handler(),
   therefore we mark it as 'volatile'.  */
typedef struct
{
  volatile action_t action;
}
actions_entry_t;

/* The registered cleanup actions.  */
static actions_entry_t static_actions[32];
static actions_entry_t * volatile actions = static_actions;
static sig_atomic_t volatile actions_count = 0;
static size_t actions_allocated = SIZEOF (static_actions);


/* The saved signal handlers.
   Size 32 would not be sufficient: On HP-UX, SIGXCPU = 33, SIGXFSZ = 34.  */
static struct sigaction saved_sigactions[64];


/* Uninstall the handlers.  */
static void
uninstall_handlers (void)
{
  size_t i;

  for (i = 0; i < num_fatal_signals; i++)
    if (fatal_signals[i] >= 0)
      {
        int sig = fatal_signals[i];
        if (saved_sigactions[sig].sa_handler == SIG_IGN)
          saved_sigactions[sig].sa_handler = SIG_DFL;
        sigaction (sig, &saved_sigactions[sig], NULL);
      }
}


/* The signal handler.  It gets called asynchronously.  */
static void
fatal_signal_handler (int sig)
{
  for (;;)
    {
      /* Get the last registered cleanup action, in a reentrant way.  */
      action_t action;
      size_t n = actions_count;
      if (n == 0)
        break;
      n--;
      actions_count = n;
      action = actions[n].action;
      /* Execute the action.  */
      action ();
    }

  /* Now execute the signal's default action.
     If the signal being delivered was blocked, the re-raised signal would be
     delivered when this handler returns.  But the way we install this handler,
     no signal is blocked, and the re-raised signal is delivered already
     during raise().  */
  uninstall_handlers ();
  raise (sig);
}


/* Install the handlers.  */
static void
install_handlers (void)
{
  size_t i;
  struct sigaction action;

  action.sa_handler = &fatal_signal_handler;
  /* If we get a fatal signal while executing fatal_signal_handler, enter
     fatal_signal_handler recursively, since it is reentrant.  Hence no
     SA_RESETHAND.  */
  action.sa_flags = SA_NODEFER;
  sigemptyset (&action.sa_mask);
  for (i = 0; i < num_fatal_signals; i++)
    if (fatal_signals[i] >= 0)
      {
        int sig = fatal_signals[i];

        if (!(sig < sizeof (saved_sigactions) / sizeof (saved_sigactions[0])))
          abort ();
        sigaction (sig, &action, &saved_sigactions[sig]);
      }
}


/* Register a cleanup function to be executed when a catchable fatal signal
   occurs.  */
void
at_fatal_signal (action_t action)
{
  static bool cleanup_initialized = false;
  if (!cleanup_initialized)
    {
      init_fatal_signals ();
      install_handlers ();
      cleanup_initialized = true;
    }

  if (actions_count == actions_allocated)
    {
      /* Extend the actions array.  Note that we cannot use xrealloc(),
         because then the cleanup() function could access an already
         deallocated array.  */
      actions_entry_t *old_actions = actions;
      size_t old_actions_allocated = actions_allocated;
      size_t new_actions_allocated = 2 * actions_allocated;
      actions_entry_t *new_actions =
        XNMALLOC (new_actions_allocated, actions_entry_t);
      size_t k;

      /* Don't use memcpy() here, because memcpy takes non-volatile arguments
         and is therefore not guaranteed to complete all memory stores before
         the next statement.  */
      for (k = 0; k < old_actions_allocated; k++)
        new_actions[k] = old_actions[k];
      actions = new_actions;
      actions_allocated = new_actions_allocated;
      /* Now we can free the old actions array.  */
      if (old_actions != static_actions)
        free (old_actions);
    }
  /* The two uses of 'volatile' in the types above (and ISO C 99 section
     5.1.2.3.(5)) ensure that we increment the actions_count only after
     the new action has been written to the memory location
     actions[actions_count].  */
  actions[actions_count].action = action;
  actions_count++;
}


/* ========================================================================= */


static sigset_t fatal_signal_set;

static void
init_fatal_signal_set (void)
{
  static bool fatal_signal_set_initialized = false;
  if (!fatal_signal_set_initialized)
    {
      size_t i;

      init_fatal_signals ();

      sigemptyset (&fatal_signal_set);
      for (i = 0; i < num_fatal_signals; i++)
        if (fatal_signals[i] >= 0)
          sigaddset (&fatal_signal_set, fatal_signals[i]);

      fatal_signal_set_initialized = true;
    }
}

/* Temporarily delay the catchable fatal signals.  */
void
block_fatal_signals (void)
{
  init_fatal_signal_set ();
  sigprocmask (SIG_BLOCK, &fatal_signal_set, NULL);
}

/* Stop delaying the catchable fatal signals.  */
void
unblock_fatal_signals (void)
{
  init_fatal_signal_set ();
  sigprocmask (SIG_UNBLOCK, &fatal_signal_set, NULL);
}