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From a853f21633693f9eefc4949660253a5328d2d2f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 23:21:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] communicate: check return status of msgrcv()
msgrcv can return with -1 to indicate an error condition.
One such error is to have been interrupted by a signal.
Being interrupted by a signal is very rare in this code, except in a
very special condition: a highly-parallel (1000 jobs!) mksquashfs on
a filesystem with extended attributes, where we see errors like (those
are mksquashfs errors):
llistxattr for titi/603/883 failed in read_attrs, because Unknown
error 1716527536
See: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10141
In this case, we just have to retry the call to msgrcv().
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
---
communicate.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/communicate.c b/communicate.c
index 293f404..787bb63 100644
--- a/communicate.c
+++ b/communicate.c
@@ -553,10 +553,13 @@ void send_get_fakem(struct fake_msg *buf)
l=msgrcv(msg_get,
(struct my_msgbuf*)buf,
sizeof(*buf)-sizeof(buf->mtype),0,0);
- while((buf->serial!=serial)||buf->pid!=pid);
+ while(((l==-1)&&(errno==EINTR))||(buf->serial!=serial)||buf->pid!=pid);
semaphore_down();
+ if(l==-1)
+ buf->xattr.flags_rc=errno;
+
/*
(nah, may be wrong, due to allignment)
--
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