From 22edb6d4899c647cfd33c13092d55c0904e90f0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Přemysl Janouch Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 21:09:04 +0200 Subject: Add a warning comment to "poller_fd::closed" --- liberty-proto.c | 1 + liberty.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/liberty-proto.c b/liberty-proto.c index aa996de..0b873e3 100644 --- a/liberty-proto.c +++ b/liberty-proto.c @@ -1460,6 +1460,7 @@ mpd_client_reset (struct mpd_client *self) xclose (self->socket); self->socket = -1; + // FIXME: this is not robust wrt. forking self->socket_event.closed = true; poller_fd_reset (&self->socket_event); poller_timer_reset (&self->timeout_timer); diff --git a/liberty.c b/liberty.c index 9848c1b..b59cde7 100644 --- a/liberty.c +++ b/liberty.c @@ -1326,6 +1326,9 @@ struct poller_fd int fd; ///< Our file descriptor short events; ///< The poll() events we registered for + + // Make triple sure that no forked child is keeping the FD, + // otherwise we may access freed memory on Linux (poor epoll design) bool closed; ///< Whether fd has been closed already poller_fd_fn dispatcher; ///< Event dispatcher -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2