Thu, 17 Aug 2023 21:41:12 -0500
Remove the posix signals from Pidgin
These weren't really doing much for us and are in the way for the crash handler
stuff that we want to do in the future.
Testing Done:
Connected an IRCv3 account without issue.
Reviewed at https://reviews.imfreedom.org/r/2566/
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--- a/pidgin/libpidgin.c Tue Aug 15 15:49:01 2023 -0500 +++ b/pidgin/libpidgin.c Thu Aug 17 21:41:12 2023 -0500 @@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ # include <config.h> #endif -#include <errno.h> - #include <glib/gi18n-lib.h> #include <glib/gstdio.h> @@ -39,211 +37,6 @@ #include "pidginapplication.h" #include "pidgincore.h" -#ifndef _WIN32 -#include <signal.h> -#endif - -#ifndef _WIN32 - -/* - * Lists of signals we wish to catch and those we wish to ignore. - * Each list terminated with -1 - */ -static const int catch_sig_list[] = { - SIGSEGV, - SIGINT, - SIGTERM, - SIGQUIT, - SIGCHLD, - -1 -}; - -static const int ignore_sig_list[] = { - SIGPIPE, - -1 -}; -#endif /* !_WIN32 */ - -#ifndef _WIN32 -static char *segfault_message; - -static guint signal_channel_watcher; - -static int signal_sockets[2]; - -static void sighandler(int sig); - -static void sighandler(int sig) -{ - ssize_t written; - - /* - * We won't do any of the heavy lifting for the signal handling here - * because we have no idea what was interrupted. Previously this signal - * handler could result in some calls to malloc/free, which can cause - * deadlock in libc when the signal handler was interrupting a previous - * malloc or free. So instead we'll do an ugly hack where we write the - * signal number to one end of a socket pair. The other half of the - * socket pair is watched by our main loop. When the main loop sees new - * data on the socket it reads in the signal and performs the appropriate - * action without fear of interrupting stuff. - */ - if (sig == SIGSEGV) { - fprintf(stderr, "%s", segfault_message); - abort(); - return; - } - - written = write(signal_sockets[0], &sig, sizeof(int)); - if (written != sizeof(int)) { - /* This should never happen */ - purple_debug_error("sighandler", "Received signal %d but only " - "wrote %" G_GSSIZE_FORMAT " bytes out of %" - G_GSIZE_FORMAT ": %s\n", - sig, written, sizeof(int), g_strerror(errno)); - exit(1); - } -} - -static gboolean -mainloop_sighandler(GIOChannel *source, G_GNUC_UNUSED GIOCondition cond, - G_GNUC_UNUSED gpointer data) -{ - GIOStatus stat; - int sig; - gsize bytes_read; - GError *error = NULL; - - /* read the signal number off of the io channel */ - stat = g_io_channel_read_chars(source, (gchar *)&sig, sizeof(int), - &bytes_read, &error); - if (stat != G_IO_STATUS_NORMAL) { - purple_debug_error("sighandler", "Signal callback failed to read " - "from signal socket: %s", error->message); - g_clear_error(&error); - purple_core_quit(); - return FALSE; - } - - switch (sig) { - case SIGCHLD: - /* Restore signal catching */ - signal(SIGCHLD, sighandler); - break; - default: - purple_debug_warning("sighandler", "Caught signal %d\n", sig); - purple_core_quit(); - } - - return TRUE; -} -#endif /* !_WIN32 */ - -#ifndef _WIN32 -static void -pidgin_setup_error_handler(void) -{ - int sig_indx; /* for setting up signal catching */ - sigset_t sigset; - char errmsg[BUFSIZ]; - GIOChannel *signal_channel; - GIOStatus signal_status; - GError *error = NULL; - char *segfault_message_tmp; - - /* We translate this here in case the crash breaks gettext. */ - segfault_message_tmp = g_strdup_printf(_( - "%s %s has segfaulted and attempted to dump a core file.\n" - "This is a bug in the software and has happened through\n" - "no fault of your own.\n\n" - "If you can reproduce the crash, please notify the developers\n" - "by reporting a bug at:\n" - "%snewissue\n\n" - "Please make sure to specify what you were doing at the time\n" - "and post the backtrace from the core file. If you do not know\n" - "how to get the backtrace, please read the instructions at\n" - "https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GetABacktrace\n"), - PIDGIN_NAME, DISPLAY_VERSION, PURPLE_WEBSITE - ); - - /* we have to convert the message (UTF-8 to console - charset) early because after a segmentation fault - it's not a good practice to allocate memory */ - segfault_message = g_locale_from_utf8(segfault_message_tmp, -1, NULL, NULL, - &error); - if(segfault_message != NULL) { - g_free(segfault_message_tmp); - } else { - /* use 'segfault_message_tmp' (UTF-8) as a fallback */ - g_warning("%s\n", error->message); - g_clear_error(&error); - segfault_message = segfault_message_tmp; - } - - /* - * Create a socket pair for receiving unix signals from a signal - * handler. - */ - if (socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, signal_sockets) < 0) { - perror("Failed to create sockets for GLib signal handling"); - exit(1); - } - signal_channel = g_io_channel_unix_new(signal_sockets[1]); - - /* - * Set the channel encoding to raw binary instead of the default of - * UTF-8, because we'll be sending integers across instead of strings. - */ - signal_status = g_io_channel_set_encoding(signal_channel, NULL, &error); - if (signal_status != G_IO_STATUS_NORMAL) { - fprintf(stderr, "Failed to set the signal channel to raw " - "binary: %s", error->message); - g_clear_error(&error); - exit(1); - } - signal_channel_watcher = g_io_add_watch(signal_channel, G_IO_IN, mainloop_sighandler, NULL); - g_io_channel_unref(signal_channel); - - /* Let's not violate any PLA's!!!! */ - /* jseymour: whatever the fsck that means */ - /* Robot101: for some reason things like gdm like to block * - * useful signals like SIGCHLD, so we unblock all the ones we * - * declare a handler for. thanks JSeymour and Vann. */ - if (sigemptyset(&sigset)) { - g_snprintf(errmsg, sizeof(errmsg), - "Warning: couldn't initialise empty signal set"); - perror(errmsg); - } - for(sig_indx = 0; catch_sig_list[sig_indx] != -1; ++sig_indx) { - if(signal(catch_sig_list[sig_indx], sighandler) == SIG_ERR) { - g_snprintf(errmsg, sizeof(errmsg), - "Warning: couldn't set signal %d for catching", - catch_sig_list[sig_indx]); - perror(errmsg); - } - if(sigaddset(&sigset, catch_sig_list[sig_indx])) { - g_snprintf(errmsg, sizeof(errmsg), - "Warning: couldn't include signal %d for unblocking", - catch_sig_list[sig_indx]); - perror(errmsg); - } - } - for(sig_indx = 0; ignore_sig_list[sig_indx] != -1; ++sig_indx) { - if(signal(ignore_sig_list[sig_indx], SIG_IGN) == SIG_ERR) { - g_snprintf(errmsg, sizeof(errmsg), - "Warning: couldn't set signal %d to ignore", - ignore_sig_list[sig_indx]); - perror(errmsg); - } - } - - if (sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &sigset, NULL)) { - g_snprintf(errmsg, sizeof(errmsg), "Warning: couldn't unblock signals"); - perror(errmsg); - } -} -#endif /* !_WIN32 */ - int pidgin_start(int argc, char *argv[]) { GApplication *app; @@ -256,10 +49,6 @@ /* Locale initialization is not complete here. See gtk_init_check() */ setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); -#ifndef _WIN32 - pidgin_setup_error_handler(); -#endif - app = pidgin_application_new(); g_application_set_default(app); @@ -284,13 +73,6 @@ */ g_object_unref(app); -#ifndef _WIN32 - g_free(segfault_message); - g_source_remove(signal_channel_watcher); - close(signal_sockets[0]); - close(signal_sockets[1]); -#endif - #ifdef _WIN32 winpidgin_cleanup(); #endif