Re: [PATCH] eal: fix thread race in control thread creation

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 6:17 PM Tyler Retzlaff
<roretzla@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> When ctrl_thread_init transitions params->ctrl_thread_status from
> CTRL_THREAD_LAUNCHING the creating thread and new thread may run
> concurrently leading to unsynchronized access to params.
>
> This permits races for both the failure and success paths after
> ctrl_thread_status is stored.
>   * params->ret may be loaded in ctrl_thread_init failure path
>   * params->arg may be loaded in ctrl_thread_start or
>     control_thread_start when calling start_routine.
>
> for ctrl_thread_init remove the params->ret load and just return 1 since

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> it is only interpreted as a indicator of success / failure of
> ctrl_thread_init.
>
> for {ctrl,control}_thread_start store param->arg in stack allocated

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> storage prior to calling ctrl_thread_init and use the copy when calling
> start_routine.
>
> for control_thread_start if ctrl_thread_init fails just return 0 instead

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> of loading params->ret, since the value returned is unused when
> ctrl_thread_status is set to CTRL_THREAD_ERROR when ctrl_thread_init
> fails.
>
> Fixes: 878b7468eacb ("eal: add platform agnostic control thread API")
>
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>

Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>

Thanks Tyler.

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David Marchand