xref: /bionic/libc/bionic/pthread_create.cpp

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#include <pthread.h>

#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

#include "pthread_internal.h"

#include "private/bionic_ssp.h"
#include "private/bionic_tls.h"
#include "private/libc_logging.h"
#include "private/ErrnoRestorer.h"
#include "private/ScopedPthreadMutexLocker.h"

// Used by gdb to track thread creation. See libthread_db.
#ifdef __i386__
extern "C" __attribute__((noinline)) __attribute__((fastcall)) void _thread_created_hook(pid_t) {}
#else
extern "C" __attribute__((noinline)) void _thread_created_hook(pid_t) {}
#endif

// x86 uses segment descriptors rather than a direct pointer to TLS.
#if __i386__
#include <asm/ldt.h>
extern "C" __LIBC_HIDDEN__ void __init_user_desc(struct user_desc*, int, void*);
#endif

static pthread_mutex_t g_pthread_stack_creation_ock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;

static pthread_mutex_t g_debugger_notification_lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;

extern "C" int __isthreaded;

// This code is used both by each new pthread and the code that initializes the main thread.
void __init_tls(pthread_internal_t* thread) {
  // Zero-initialize all the slots after TLS_SLOT_SELF and TLS_SLOT_THREAD_ID.
  for (size_t i = TLS_SLOT_ERRNO; i < BIONIC_TLS_SLOTS; ++i) {
    thread->tls[i] = NULL;
  }

  // Slot 0 must point to itself. The x86 Linux kernel reads the TLS from %fs:0.
  thread->tls[TLS_SLOT_SELF] = thread->tls;
  thread->tls[TLS_SLOT_THREAD_ID] = thread;
  // GCC looks in the TLS for the stack guard on x86, so copy it there from our global.
  thread->tls[TLS_SLOT_STACK_GUARD] = (void*) __stack_chk_guard;
}

void __init_alternate_signal_stack(pthread_internal_t* thread) {
  // Create and set an alternate signal stack.
  stack_t ss;
  ss.ss_sp = mmap(NULL, SIGSTKSZ, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0);
  if (ss.ss_sp != MAP_FAILED) {
    ss.ss_size = SIGSTKSZ;
    ss.ss_flags = 0;
    sigaltstack(&ss, NULL);
    thread->alternate_signal_stack = ss.ss_sp;
  }
}

int __init_thread(pthread_internal_t* thread, bool add_to_thread_list) {
  int error = 0;

  // Set the scheduling policy/priority of the thread.
  if (thread->attr.sched_policy != SCHED_NORMAL) {
    sched_param param;
    param.sched_priority = thread->attr.sched_priority;
    if (sched_setscheduler(thread->tid, thread->attr.sched_policy, &param) == -1) {
#if __LP64__
      // For backwards compatibility reasons, we only report failures on 64-bit devices.
      error = errno;
#endif
      __libc_format_log(ANDROID_LOG_WARN, "libc",
                        "pthread_create sched_setscheduler call failed: %s", strerror(errno));
    }
  }

  thread->cleanup_stack = NULL;

  if (add_to_thread_list) {
    _pthread_internal_add(thread);
  }

  return error;
}

static void* __create_thread_stack(pthread_internal_t* thread) {
  ScopedPthreadMutexLocker lock(&g_pthread_stack_creation_ock);

  // Create a new private anonymous map.
  int prot = PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE;
  int flags = MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE;
  void* stack = mmap(NULL, thread->attr.stack_size, prot, flags, -1, 0);
  if (stack == MAP_FAILED) {
    __libc_format_log(ANDROID_LOG_WARN,
                      "libc",
                      "pthread_create failed: couldn't allocate %zd-byte stack: %s",
                      thread->attr.stack_size, strerror(errno));
    return NULL;
  }

  // Set the guard region at the end of the stack to PROT_NONE.
  if (mprotect(stack, thread->attr.guard_size, PROT_NONE) == -1) {
    __libc_format_log(ANDROID_LOG_WARN, "libc",
                      "pthread_create failed: couldn't mprotect PROT_NONE %zd-byte stack guard region: %s",
                      thread->attr.guard_size, strerror(errno));
    munmap(stack, thread->attr.stack_size);
    return NULL;
  }

  return stack;
}

static int __pthread_start(void* arg) {
  pthread_internal_t* thread = reinterpret_cast<pthread_internal_t*>(arg);

  // Wait for our creating thread to release us. This lets it have time to
  // notify gdb about this thread before we start doing anything.
  // This also provides the memory barrier needed to ensure that all memory
  // accesses previously made by the creating thread are visible to us.
  pthread_mutex_t* start_mutex = (pthread_mutex_t*) &thread->tls[TLS_SLOT_START_MUTEX];
  pthread_mutex_lock(start_mutex);
  pthread_mutex_destroy(start_mutex);
  thread->tls[TLS_SLOT_START_MUTEX] = NULL;

  __init_alternate_signal_stack(thread);

  void* result = thread->start_routine(thread->start_routine_arg);
  pthread_exit(result);

  return 0;
}

// A dummy start routine for pthread_create failures where we've created a thread but aren't
// going to run user code on it. We swap out the user's start routine for this and take advantage
// of the regular thread teardown to free up resources.
static void* __do_nothing(void*) {
  return NULL;
}

int pthread_create(pthread_t* thread_out, pthread_attr_t const* attr,
                   void* (*start_routine)(void*), void* arg) {
  ErrnoRestorer errno_restorer;

  // Inform the rest of the C library that at least one thread was created.
  __isthreaded = 1;

  pthread_internal_t* thread = reinterpret_cast<pthread_internal_t*>(calloc(sizeof(*thread), 1));
  if (thread == NULL) {
    __libc_format_log(ANDROID_LOG_WARN, "libc", "pthread_create failed: couldn't allocate thread");
    return EAGAIN;
  }

  if (attr == NULL) {
    pthread_attr_init(&thread->attr);
  } else {
    thread->attr = *attr;
    attr = NULL; // Prevent misuse below.
  }

  // Make sure the stack size and guard size are multiples of PAGE_SIZE.
  thread->attr.stack_size = (thread->attr.stack_size + (PAGE_SIZE-1)) & ~(PAGE_SIZE-1);
  thread->attr.guard_size = (thread->attr.guard_size + (PAGE_SIZE-1)) & ~(PAGE_SIZE-1);

  if (thread->attr.stack_base == NULL) {
    // The caller didn't provide a stack, so allocate one.
    thread->attr.stack_base = __create_thread_stack(thread);
    if (thread->attr.stack_base == NULL) {
      free(thread);
      return EAGAIN;
    }
  } else {
    // The caller did provide a stack, so remember we're not supposed to free it.
    thread->attr.flags |= PTHREAD_ATTR_FLAG_USER_ALLOCATED_STACK;
  }

  // Make room for the TLS area.
  // The child stack is the same address, just growing in the opposite direction.
  // At offsets >= 0, we have the TLS slots.
  // At offsets < 0, we have the child stack.
  thread->tls = (void**)((uint8_t*)(thread->attr.stack_base) + thread->attr.stack_size - BIONIC_TLS_SLOTS * sizeof(void*));
  void* child_stack = thread->tls;
  __init_tls(thread);

  // Create a mutex for the thread in TLS to wait on once it starts so we can keep
  // it from doing anything until after we notify the debugger about it
  //
  // This also provides the memory barrier we need to ensure that all
  // memory accesses previously performed by this thread are visible to
  // the new thread.
  pthread_mutex_t* start_mutex = (pthread_mutex_t*) &thread->tls[TLS_SLOT_START_MUTEX];
  pthread_mutex_init(start_mutex, NULL);
  pthread_mutex_lock(start_mutex);

  thread->start_routine = start_routine;
  thread->start_routine_arg = arg;

  int flags = CLONE_VM | CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SYSVSEM |
      CLONE_SETTLS | CLONE_PARENT_SETTID | CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID;
  void* tls = thread->tls;
#if defined(__i386__)
  // On x86 (but not x86-64), CLONE_SETTLS takes a pointer to a struct user_desc rather than
  // a pointer to the TLS itself.
  user_desc tls_descriptor;
  __init_user_desc(&tls_descriptor, false, tls);
  tls = &tls_descriptor;
#endif
  int rc = clone(__pthread_start, child_stack, flags, thread, &(thread->tid), tls, &(thread->tid));
  if (rc == -1) {
    int clone_errno = errno;
    // We don't have to unlock the mutex at all because clone(2) failed so there's no child waiting to
    // be unblocked, but we're about to unmap the memory the mutex is stored in, so this serves as a
    // reminder that you can't rewrite this function to use a ScopedPthreadMutexLocker.
    pthread_mutex_unlock(start_mutex);
    if ((thread->attr.flags & PTHREAD_ATTR_FLAG_USER_ALLOCATED_STACK) == 0) {
      munmap(thread->attr.stack_base, thread->attr.stack_size);
    }
    free(thread);
    __libc_format_log(ANDROID_LOG_WARN, "libc", "pthread_create failed: clone failed: %s", strerror(errno));
    return clone_errno;
  }

  int init_errno = __init_thread(thread, true);
  if (init_errno != 0) {
    // Mark the thread detached and replace its start_routine with a no-op.
    // Letting the thread run is the easiest way to clean up its resources.
    thread->attr.flags |= PTHREAD_ATTR_FLAG_DETACHED;
    thread->start_routine = __do_nothing;
    pthread_mutex_unlock(start_mutex);
    return init_errno;
  }

  // Notify any debuggers about the new thread.
  {
    ScopedPthreadMutexLocker debugger_locker(&g_debugger_notification_lock);
    _thread_created_hook(thread->tid);
  }

  // Publish the pthread_t and unlock the mutex to let the new thread start running.
  *thread_out = reinterpret_cast<pthread_t>(thread);
  pthread_mutex_unlock(start_mutex);

  return 0;
}