pgsql: Don't run atexit callbacks in quickdie signal handlers. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject pgsql: Don't run atexit callbacks in quickdie signal handlers.
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Msg-id E1fnRBS-0005c0-G3@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Don't run atexit callbacks in quickdie signal handlers.

exit() is not async-signal safe. Even if the libc implementation is, 3rd
party libraries might have installed unsafe atexit() callbacks. After
receiving SIGQUIT, we really just want to exit as quickly as possible, so
we don't really want to run the atexit() callbacks anyway.

The original report by Jimmy Yih was a self-deadlock in startup_die().
However, this patch doesn't address that scenario; the signal handling
while waiting for the startup packet is more complicated. But at least this
alleviates similar problems in the SIGQUIT handlers, like that reported
by Asim R P later in the same thread.

Backpatch to 9.3 (all supported versions).

Discussion:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAOMx_OAuRUHiAuCg2YgicZLzPVv5d9_H4KrL_OFsFP%3DVPekigA%40mail.gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8e19a82640d3fa2350db146ec72916856dd02f0a

Modified Files
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src/backend/postmaster/bgworker.c     | 25 +++++++++----------------
src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c     | 24 +++++++++---------------
src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c | 24 +++++++++---------------
src/backend/postmaster/startup.c      | 24 +++++++++---------------
src/backend/postmaster/walwriter.c    | 24 +++++++++---------------
src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c | 32 +++++++++++++-------------------
src/backend/tcop/postgres.c           | 32 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
7 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)


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