prevent fork's errno from being clobbered by atfork handlers
authorBobby Bingham <koorogi@koorogi.info>
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:15:43 +0000 (18:15 -0600)
committerRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:27:57 +0000 (19:27 -0500)
If the syscall fails, errno must be set correctly for the caller.
There's no guarantee that the handlers registered with pthread_atfork
won't clobber errno, so we need to ensure it gets set after they are
called.

src/process/fork.c

index b96f0024f4c03c86e8ac6d72b4305576d0a020c6..da074ae9c9b958be06cc0e6bbd4f0daa27524cbc 100644 (file)
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ pid_t fork(void)
        __fork_handler(-1);
        __block_all_sigs(&set);
 #ifdef SYS_fork
-       ret = syscall(SYS_fork);
+       ret = __syscall(SYS_fork);
 #else
-       ret = syscall(SYS_clone, SIGCHLD, 0);
+       ret = __syscall(SYS_clone, SIGCHLD, 0);
 #endif
        if (!ret) {
                pthread_t self = __pthread_self();
@@ -31,5 +31,5 @@ pid_t fork(void)
        }
        __restore_sigs(&set);
        __fork_handler(!ret);
-       return ret;
+       return __syscall_ret(ret);
 }