Issue #20586 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans). Anonymous wrote in #note-8:
`rb_getpwdirnam_for_login` currently does not have any explicit handling for `EINTR`. However, it /is/ being treated as an error[0][1], so should never result in a false negative ("no record found for the supplied login_name").
I think it could be made to retry on `EINTR`, so signals such as `SIGPROF` triggering `EINTR` would not result in unnecessary errors. An untested patch for this is included below.
I think this is expected. The consensus seems to be that we should raise an error. Maybe we could change the handling to retry certain calls in the future, though. Maybe `getpwnam` is safe, but I'm not positive it is in all cases. It doesn't seem to have the same issues as `readdir`, but if the call does take a substantial amount of time, I could see it continually failing if SIGPROF interval is shorter than system call time. ivoanjo (Ivo Anjo) wrote in #note-9:
The only (potential?) issue I still see is with calls to `getlogin` -- that one seems to bottom out on a number of IO reads and whatnot so it does look like it may end up with an EINTR. Even with 11202, `rb_home_dir_of` is still calling `getlogin` directly and without error checking.
I also noticed that `ext/etc/etc.c` and `ext/pty/pty.c` seem to also use `getlogin` directly, so perhaps they'll also suffer from the same issue? 🤔
That's a good point. I decided not to release GVL for `getlogin`, as I don't think it should block as it should not need to access the file system, just memory. However, I agree that we should still add error checking. Maybe I can do that in a separate pull request. ---------------------------------------- Bug #20586: Some filesystem calls in dir.c are missing error handling and can return incorrect results if interrupted https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20586#change-109467 * Author: ivoanjo (Ivo Anjo) * Status: Open * Backport: 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- #### Background Hey! I work for Datadog on the Ruby profiler part of the [`datadog` (previously `ddtrace`)](https://github.com/datadog/dd-trace-rb) gem. A customer reached [out with an issue](https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rb/issues/3450) where enabling the profiler made `Dir.glob` return no files for a given folder: Without profiler: ``` irb(main):002:0> Dir.glob('/gcsfuse/t*') => ["/gcsfuse/test.html", "/gcsfuse/test.txt"] ``` With profiler: ``` irb(main):002:0> Dir.glob('/gcsfuse/t*') => [] ``` It turns out the issue is related to missing error handling in `dir.c`. The Datadog Ruby profiler, like stackprof, pf2 and vernier, uses unix signals to interrupt the currently-active thread and take a sample (usually `SIGPROF`). When some system calls get interrupted by a signal, they return an [EINTR error code](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html#:~:text=Interruption%20o...) back to the caller. Consider for instance the implementation of `dir_each_entry` in `dir.c`: ```c static VALUE dir_each_entry(VALUE dir, VALUE (*each)(VALUE, VALUE), VALUE arg, int children_only) { struct dir_data *dirp; struct dirent *dp; IF_NORMALIZE_UTF8PATH(int norm_p); GetDIR(dir, dirp); rewinddir(dirp->dir); IF_NORMALIZE_UTF8PATH(norm_p = need_normalization(dirp->dir, RSTRING_PTR(dirp->path))); while ((dp = READDIR(dirp->dir, dirp->enc)) != NULL) { // ... do things } return dir; } ``` If `READDIR` returns `NULL`, then `dir_each_entry` assumes it has iterated the entire directory. But looking [at the man page for `readdir`](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readdir.3.html) we see the following sharp edge (emphasis mine):
It returns NULL on reaching the end of the directory stream **or if an error occurred**.
So what's happening in this situation is: `readdir` gets interrupted, returns `NULL` + sets errno to `EINTR`. But `dir_each_entry` doesn't check `errno`, so rather than raising an exception to flag the issue, it treats it as if the end of the directory has been reached. #### How to reproduce Reproducing this is somewhat annoying, because it's dependent on timing: the signal must arrive at the exact time the dir API is getting executed. I was able to reproduce this every time by using the [google cloud `gcsfuse`](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gcs-fuse) tool. This somewhat makes sense -- a remote filesystem is much slower than a local one, so there's a much bigger window of opportunity for a signal to arrive while the system call is blocked. Here's an example I included in https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rb/pull/3720: ``` # Not shown: Set up a trial google cloud account, install gcsfuse, create a cloud storage bucket and put in some test files $ gcsfuse test_fs_dd_trace_rb fuse-testing/ $ ls fuse-testing/ hello.txt test.html test.txt # Not shown: Add `datadog` gem to `Gemfile` $ DD_PROFILING_ENABLED=true DD_PROFILING_DIR_INTERRUPTION_WORKAROUND_ENABLED=false bundle exec ddprofrb exec ruby -e "Datadog::Profiling.wait_until_running; pp Dir.children('fuse-testing/')" [] ``` Let me know if you'd like me to try to create a reproducer that does not depend on the `datadog` gem. #### Additional notes I've spent quite some time looking at the `dir.c` sources, and here's the full list of APIs that suffer from issues: * `dir_each_entry` does not check `errno`; all of its users have interruption bugs * `dir_tell` will return -1 instead of the correct position (which means that passing -1 to `dir_seek`/`dir_set_pos` will cause it to not list the directory properly) * `do_opendir` an error in system calls will only sometimes be turned into a raised exception * Indirect callers that pass in rb_glob_error as errfunc: rb_glob, Dir.[], Dir.glob * Indirect callers that pass in 0 as errfunc: ruby_glob, ruby_brace_glob * `glob_opendir` does not check errno; all of its users have interruption bugs * `glob_getent` does not check errno; all of its users have interruption bugs * `nogvl_dir_empty_p` does not check errno (of readdir! it actually checks for opendir); all of its users have interruption bugs Less sure about these: * `do_stat`/`do_lstat` will turn errors into warnings (unclear if enabled or disabled by default) * `need_normalization` calls `fgetattrlist` / `getattrlist` and all errors `(ret != 0)` are treated in the same way * `rb_glob_error` is and `rb_glob_caller` leave exceptions as pending and rely on callers to raise them properly * Error handling of `rb_home_dir_of` and `rb_default_home_dir` are a bit suspicious As a workaround in the Datadog Ruby profiler, in https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rb/pull/3720 I've added monkey patches to all of the Ruby-level APIs that use the above functions and mask out `SIGPROF` so these calls are never interrupted. This solution is does successfully work around the issue, although it prevents the profiler from sampling during these system calls, which will mean less visibility if e.g. these calls are taking a long time. And well, maintaining monkey patches is always problematic for future Ruby compatibility. ---Files-------------------------------- readdir-bug-repro.c (2.11 KB) -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/