ptrace: SIGTRAP and EXIT race
Robert Ayrapetyan
robert.ayrapetyan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 04:43:59 UTC 2019
Hello.
Before creating a bug and providing some test code, would ask a community
here.
When tracing a process using ptrace and there are multiple threads in the
tracing process hitting the same breakpoint, sometimes main thread exits
(WIFEXITED(status) is TRUE) before last queued TRAP_BKPT signal(s) have
been delivered to the tracing process. So a final breakpoint hits counter
is less than it should be.
So in the example below:
#include <iostream>
#include <thread>
#include <pthread_np.h>
static const int num_threads = 2;
void foo() {
for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i) {
printf("hi: %d (tid: %d)\n", i, pthread_getthreadid_np());
}
}
int main() {
std::thread t[num_threads];
for (int i = 0; i < num_threads; ++i) {
t[i] = std::thread(foo);
}
for (int i = 0; i < num_threads; ++i) {
t[i].join();
}
return 0;
}
If we set breakpoint to printf, it should be triggered 4 times (tracing
process should receive TRAP_BKPT 4 times). However, in ~1 of 5 runs, it
receives TRAP_BKPT just 2 or 3 times.
Is this expected? Thanks.
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