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[PATCH] io.c: do not close inherited FDs by default

Added by normalperson (Eric Wong) over 5 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

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[ruby-core:87904]

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io.c: do not close inherited FDs by default

While I fully agree Ruby should create FDs with close-on-exec by
default (as it has since 2.0.0); I don't believe Ruby should be
arbitrarily closing file descriptors it does not know about.

The following is an example (using mwrap[1]) where closing
inherited FDs is harmful.

MWRAP=dump_fd:99 mwrap make -j4 exam 99>>mwrap.out

I only found one minor regression from this change in
test/lib/test/unit.rb as IO.new does not set close-on-exec
when using jobserver FDs from make. A possible change
is to make IO.new set FD_CLOEXEC by default.

[1] https://80x24.org/mwrap/README.html


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Updated by normalperson (Eric Wong) over 5 years ago

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14907

I only found one minor regression from this change in
test/lib/test/unit.rb as IO.new does not set close-on-exec
when using jobserver FDs from make. A possible change
is to make IO.new set FD_CLOEXEC by default.

Maybe this is a good complimentary change:

diff --git a/ext/socket/basicsocket.c b/ext/socket/basicsocket.c
index 2641b4410b..0418c022cf 100644
--- a/ext/socket/basicsocket.c
+++ b/ext/socket/basicsocket.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ bsock_s_for_fd(VALUE klass, VALUE fd)
     VALUE sock = rsock_init_sock(rb_obj_alloc(klass), NUM2INT(fd));
 
     GetOpenFile(sock, fptr);
+    rb_maygvl_fd_fix_cloexec(fptr->fd);
 
     return sock;
 }
diff --git a/io.c b/io.c
index b041acdef0..ddebd09e65 100644
--- a/io.c
+++ b/io.c
@@ -8085,6 +8085,7 @@ rb_io_initialize(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE io)
 #else
     if (fstat(fd, &st) == -1) rb_sys_fail(0);
 #endif
+    rb_maygvl_fd_fix_cloexec(fd);
     rb_update_max_fd(fd);
 #if defined(HAVE_FCNTL) && defined(F_GETFL)
     ofmode = rb_io_oflags_fmode(oflags);
diff --git a/test/ruby/test_io.rb b/test/ruby/test_io.rb
index a6a8e78209..97ea857c3e 100644
--- a/test/ruby/test_io.rb
+++ b/test/ruby/test_io.rb
@@ -3128,6 +3128,15 @@ def test_cloexec
     }
   end
 
+  def test_for_fd_close_on_exec
+    IO.pipe do |r, w|
+      w.close_on_exec = false
+      w2 = IO.new(w.fileno, autoclose: false)
+      assert_predicate w, :close_on_exec?
+      assert_predicate w2, :close_on_exec?
+    end
+  end if have_close_on_exec?
+
   def test_ioctl_linux
     # Alpha, mips, sparc and ppc have an another ioctl request number scheme.
     # So, hardcoded 0x80045200 may fail.
diff --git a/test/socket/test_basicsocket.rb b/test/socket/test_basicsocket.rb
index d388b4f0dd..6ea8bcfdf3 100644
--- a/test/socket/test_basicsocket.rb
+++ b/test/socket/test_basicsocket.rb
@@ -150,6 +150,13 @@ def test_for_fd
       s = BasicSocket.for_fd(sock.fileno)
       assert_instance_of BasicSocket, s
       s.autoclose = false
+
+      sock.close_on_exec = false
+      s2 = BasicSocket.for_fd(sock.fileno)
+      s2.autoclose = false
+      assert_predicate s2, :close_on_exec?
+      assert_predicate sock, :close_on_exec?
+
       sock.close
     end
   end

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 5 years ago

+            r.close_on_exec = true
+            r.close_on_exec = true

The second is w?

Updated by normalperson (Eric Wong) over 5 years ago

wrote:

+            r.close_on_exec = true
+            r.close_on_exec = true

The second is w?

Yes :) But I prefer we drop this hunk and use make IO#new
set FD_CLOEXEC [ruby-core:87905]

Updated by akr (Akira Tanaka) over 5 years ago

I understand that FD inheritance dependent program doesn't work well with Ruby.

But I doubt that all external library create FDs with close-on-exec now.
spawn's close_others option would be useful workaround to avoid FD leak
with such (problematic) library.

So, I'm reluctant that removing close_others feature.
It means that we lose the workaround.

However, turn off close_others by default (for spawn and IO.popen) seems possible choice for me.

It is difficult to see how many the problematic libraries actually exists
with closing FDs by default.

Updated by akr (Akira Tanaka) over 5 years ago

We discuss this issue at today's meeting.

We agree we can challenge to change the default.
Then, we can see actual problem (FD leak) exist or not.

Updated by normalperson (Eric Wong) over 5 years ago

wrote:

We agree we can challenge to change the default.
Then, we can see actual problem (FD leak) exist or not.

OK, I'll commit 0001-process.c-close_others-defaults-to-false.patch
early next week (won't have much Internet access soon)

Updated by normalperson (Eric Wong) over 5 years ago

I wrote:

OK, I'll commit 0001-process.c-close_others-defaults-to-false.patch

Nevermind, the version I uploaded here also introduces
compatibility problems around make jobserver FD inheritance with
rubyspec. So setting FD_CLOEXEC on IO.for_fd still introduces
incompatibilities.

So either I need to make changes to test/lib/test/unit.rb
or I make changes to spec/default.mspec
(for spec/ruby/optional/capi/spec_helper.rb)

Or we continue to suffer with the problem which caused me to
proposed this patch in the first place.

Anyways, this version which ONLY defaults "close_others: false"
and makes no change to IO.for_fd is likely the safest:

https://80x24.org/spew/20180815182638.8286-1-e@80x24.org/raw

But I still hate having to make the change to test/lib/test/unit.rb,
because this has a chance of breaking other 3rd-party code:

diff --git a/test/lib/test/unit.rb b/test/lib/test/unit.rb
index 51c8960c52..7a09466d1c 100644
--- a/test/lib/test/unit.rb
+++ b/test/lib/test/unit.rb
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ def non_options(files, options)
r.close if r
nil
else
+            r.close_on_exec = true
+            w.close_on_exec = true
@jobserver = [r, w]
options[:parallel] ||= 1
end

Damned if we do, damned if we don't...

Updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze) over 5 years ago

@normalperson (Eric Wong) FWIW, I'm not fond of the jobserver-related logic in spec/ruby/optional/capi/spec_helper.rb, it's too complex and seems to gain nothing (but does prevent a make warning IIRC).
If there is an easy way to ignore the warning due to having a grandparent make process, I'll gladly take it. There is no point to parallelize building the C-API specs, it's single C files.

Updated by normalperson (Eric Wong) over 5 years ago

wrote:

@normalperson (Eric Wong) FWIW, I'm not fond of the jobserver-related logic in spec/ruby/optional/capi/spec_helper.rb, it's too complex and seems to gain nothing (but does prevent a make warning IIRC).

It's fine, I guess; and it highlights the risk of this change.

The annoying thing about this problem is with my original goal
to fix a regression introduced in 2.0; we introduce a new
regression for code written after 2.0 (so I patch
test/lib/test/unit.rb ...)

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Updated by normalperson (Eric Wong) over 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset trunk|r64399.


process.c: defaults to close_others false

Arbitrarily closing file descriptors on exec breaks use cases
where a Ruby process sets up a descriptor for non-Ruby children
to use. For example, the "rake foo" target may spawn any number
of subprocesses (Ruby or not) which depends on parsing the "FOO"
environment variable for out_fd:99 and writing to foo.out

FOO=out_fd:99 rake foo 99>>foo.out

Unfortunately, this introduced one incompatibility in
test/lib/test/unit.rb and it now requires explicitly setting
IO#close_on_exec=true

[ruby-core:88007] [Misc #14907]

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