Opened 12 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#10841 closed Bug Report - General (Fixed)

SignalHandling returns from SEGFAULT signal handler

Reported by: danielk Owned by: beirdo
Priority: minor Milestone: 0.26.1
Component: MythTV - General Version: Master Head
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

If you return from a SIGFAULT, SIGFPE, SIGBUS, or SIGILL the offending code is re-run and the signal is raised again.

If the fault occurs in the the UI thread where SignalHandler::handleSignal() is run in it will never run since we never get the opportunity to continue on to where the QSocketNotifier events are handled.

This leads the write() in SignalHandler::signalHandler() to block forever, deadlocking the UI thread.

Attachments (1)

segfault-handling-poc-v1.patch (1.2 KB) - added by danielk 12 years ago.
Proof-of-concept fix.

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Change History (7)

Changed 12 years ago by danielk

Proof-of-concept fix.

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by Daniel Thor Kristjansson <danielk@…>

In 546fdac8d1e952422c91278be3187ae87aded28e/mythtv:

Refs #10841. A fix for SEGFAULT handling.

We may want to handle this differently later, but this works.
We don't return from signalHandler if the signal is SEGV, ILL, BUS, or FPE.
This ensures the signal isn't immediately re-raised on return.
Also, after waiting 1 second for any cleanup actions which will
only happen if this signal didn't occur in the UI thread, we
call the default handler which will generate a core if necessary
and then exit the program.

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by Daniel Thor Kristjansson <danielk@…>

In 6f218b1ab4ad067f564eb07919560970cbb77de2/mythtv:

Refs #10841. Add stdlib include for free.

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by Daniel Thor Kristjansson <danielk@…>

In 62f3c643d80e617aa718421795ca3ac216e3c7cc/mythtv:

Refs #10841. Define SIGBUS as SIGSEGV on windows systems.

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by beirdo

Owner: set to beirdo
Status: newassigned

I think what you have so far will work, but I'm considering restructuring it so the signal handlers are in their own thread, which should simplify things a bit. If this hasn't been changed by Aug 1, please remind me to close it as fixed :)

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by Kenni Lund [kenni a kelu dot dk]

Milestone: 0.260.26.1

comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by beirdo

Resolution: Fixed
Status: assignedclosed

This is well past Aug 1, 2012. Let's consider this fixed.

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