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kern/52634: possible unhandled spurious wakeup in posix_spawn
>Number: 52634
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: possible unhandled spurious wakeup in posix_spawn
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 20 16:00:00 +0000 2017
>Originator: Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>
>Release: NetBSD-current
>Organization:
The NetBSD Foundation
>Environment:
any
>Description:
do_posix_spawn calls cv_wait without looping on a test for a
condition, which may cause it to return before the child is
ready -- and potentially even to read and return an
uninitialized error -- in the case of a spurious wakeup:
https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/kern/kern_exec.c?r=1.448#2605
>How-To-Repeat:
Code inspection.
>Fix:
Yes, please!
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