[Xcb] [PATCH] Terminate the connection if the fd was closed on us.

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sun Jul 4 17:54:26 PDT 2010


If a client calls close(2) on the connection's file descriptor and then
XFlush(3), libxcb causes a hang in the client.

XFlush(3) eventually calls _xcb_out_send() with has the following loop:
    while(ret && *count)
        ret = _xcb_conn_wait(c, &c->out.cond, vector, count);

_xcb_conn_wait(), if built with USE_POLL gets the POLLNVAL error. It only
checks for POLLIN and POLLOUT though, ignoring the error.  Return value is
1, count is unmodified, leaving us with an endless loop and the a client
hang.

This patch adds a check for POLLNVAL in the polling code. If POLLNVAL is
detected, _xcb_conn_shutdown() is invoked an and error is returned. This
matches the behaviour if select(2) is used instead of poll(2). select(2)
returns -1 and EBADF for an already closed file descriptor.

Fixes XTS testcase Xlib3/XConnectionNumber.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/test/xts/tree/xts5/Xlib3/XConnectionNumber.m

Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
---
I opted for the double (ret < 0) for readabilty, if a construct like

   if (ret < 0
#if USE_POLL
        || ((fd.revents & POLLNVAL) == POLLNVAL))
#endif
    )

is preferred, I can fix up the patch.

 src/xcb_conn.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/xcb_conn.c b/src/xcb_conn.c
index 251d62e..a96186b 100644
--- a/src/xcb_conn.c
+++ b/src/xcb_conn.c
@@ -308,7 +308,11 @@ int _xcb_conn_wait(xcb_connection_t *c, pthread_cond_t *cond, struct iovec **vec
 	ret = select(c->fd + 1, &rfds, &wfds, 0, 0);
 #endif
     } while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR);
+#if USE_POLL
+    if (ret < 0 || ((fd.revents & POLLNVAL) == POLLNVAL))
+#else
     if (ret < 0)
+#endif
     {
         _xcb_conn_shutdown(c);
 	ret = 0;
-- 
1.7.1



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