see discussion from after https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/12453 was
merged
----
This PR replaces signals that are not considered async-signal-safe
(AS-safe) with safe calls.
#### **1. serverLog() and serverLogFromHandler()**
`serverLog` uses unsafe calls. It was decided that we will **avoid**
`serverLog` calls by the signal handlers when:
* The signal is not fatal, such as SIGALRM. In these cases, we prefer
using `serverLogFromHandler` which is the safe version of `serverLog`.
Note they have different prompts:
`serverLog`: `62220:M 26 Oct 2023 14:39:04.526 # <msg>`
`serverLogFromHandler`: `62220:signal-handler (1698331136) <msg>`
* The code was added recently. Calls to `serverLog` by the signal
handler have been there ever since Redis exists and it hasn't caused
problems so far. To avoid regression, from now we should use
`serverLogFromHandler`
#### **2. `snprintf` `fgets` and `strtoul`(base = 16) -------->
`_safe_snprintf`, `fgets_async_signal_safe`, `string_to_hex`**
The safe version of `snprintf` was taken from
[here](8cfc4ca5e7/src/mc_util.c (L754))
#### **3. fopen(), fgets(), fclose() --------> open(), read(), close()**
#### **4. opendir(), readdir(), closedir() --------> open(),
syscall(SYS_getdents64), close()**
#### **5. Threads_mngr sync mechanisms**
* waiting for the thread to generate stack trace: semaphore -------->
busy-wait
* `globals_rw_lock` was removed: as we are not using malloc and the
semaphore anymore we don't need to protect `ThreadsManager_cleanups`.
#### **6. Stacktraces buffer**
The initial problem was that we were not able to safely call malloc
within the signal handler.
To solve that we created a buffer on the stack of `writeStacktraces` and
saved it in a global pointer, assuming that under normal circumstances,
the function `writeStacktraces` would complete before any thread
attempted to write to it. However, **if threads lag behind, they might
access this global pointer after it no longer belongs to the
`writeStacktraces` stack, potentially corrupting memory.**
To address this, various solutions were discussed
[here](https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/12658#discussion_r1390442896)
Eventually, we decided to **create a pipe** at server startup that will
remain valid as long as the process is alive.
We chose this solution due to its minimal memory usage, and since
`write()` and `read()` are atomic operations. It ensures that stack
traces from different threads won't mix.
**The stacktraces collection process is now as follows:**
* Cleaning the pipe to eliminate writes of late threads from previous
runs.
* Each thread writes to the pipe its stacktrace
* Waiting for all the threads to mark completion or until a timeout (2
sec) is reached
* Reading from the pipe to print the stacktraces.
#### **7. Changes that were considered and eventually were dropped**
* replace watchdog timer with a POSIX timer:
according to [settimer man](https://linux.die.net/man/2/setitimer)
> POSIX.1-2008 marks getitimer() and setitimer() obsolete, recommending
the use of the POSIX timers API
([timer_gettime](https://linux.die.net/man/2/timer_gettime)(2),
[timer_settime](https://linux.die.net/man/2/timer_settime)(2), etc.)
instead.
However, although it is supposed to conform to POSIX std, POSIX timers
API is not supported on Mac.
You can take a look here at the Linux implementation:
[here](c7562ee135)
To avoid messing up the code, and uncertainty regarding compatibility,
it was decided to drop it for now.
* avoid using sds (uses malloc) in logConfigDebugInfo
It was considered to print config info instead of using sds, however
apparently, `logConfigDebugInfo` does more than just print the sds, so
it was decided this fix is out of this issue scope.
#### **8. fix Signal mask check**
The check `signum & sig_mask` intended to indicate whether the signal is
blocked by the thread was incorrect. Actually, the bit position in the
signal mask corresponds to the signal number. We fixed this by changing
the condition to: `sig_mask & (1L << (sig_num - 1))`
#### **9. Unrelated changes**
both `fork.tcl `and `util.tcl` implemented a function called
`count_log_message` expecting different parameters. This caused
confusion when trying to run daily tests with additional test parameters
to run a specific test.
The `count_log_message` in `fork.tcl` was removed and the calls were
replaced with calls to `count_log_message` located in `util.tcl`
---------
Co-authored-by: Ozan Tezcan <ozantezcan@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
The purpose of the test is to kill the child while it is running.
From the last two lines we can see the child exits before being killed.
```
- Module fork started pid: 56998
* <fork> fork child started
- Killing running module fork child: 56998
* <fork> fork child exiting
signal-handler (1652267501) Received SIGUSR1 in child, exiting now.
```
In this commit, we pass an argument to `fork.create` indicating how
long it should sleep. For the fork kill test, we use a longer time to
avoid the child exiting before being killed.
Other changes:
use wait_for_condition instead of hardcoded `after 250`.
Unify the test for failing fork with the one for killing it (save time)
Summary of changes:
1. Rename `redisCommand->name` to `redisCommand->declared_name`, it is a
const char * for native commands and SDS for module commands.
2. Store the [sub]command fullname in `redisCommand->fullname` (sds).
3. List subcommands in `ACL CAT`
4. List subcommands in `COMMAND LIST`
5. `moduleUnregisterCommands` now will also free the module subcommands.
6. RM_GetCurrentCommandName returns full command name
Other changes:
1. Add `addReplyErrorArity` and `addReplyErrorExpireTime`
2. Remove `getFullCommandName` function that now is useless.
3. Some cleanups about `fullname` since now it is SDS.
4. Delete `populateSingleCommand` function from server.h that is useless.
5. Added tests to cover this change.
6. Add some module unload tests and fix the leaks
7. Make error messages uniform, make sure they always contain the full command
name and that it's quoted.
7. Fixes some typos
see the history in #9504, fixes#10124
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Co-authored-by: guybe7 <guy.benoish@redislabs.com>
Callers of redisFork() are logging `strerror(errno)` on failure.
`errno` is not set when there is already a child process, causing printing
current value of errno which was set before `redisFork()` call.
Setting errno to EEXIST on this failure to provide more meaningful error message.
* create module API for forking child processes.
* refactor duplicate code around creating and tracking forks by AOF and RDB.
* child processes listen to SIGUSR1 and dies exitFromChild in order to
eliminate a valgrind warning of unhandled signal.
* note that BGSAVE error reply has changed.
valgrind error is:
Process terminating with default action of signal 10 (SIGUSR1)
