Issues #33565 and #56784 were caused by hangs in the child process
after fork, while it ran atfork handlers that ran into slow paths that
didn't work in the child.
CL 451735 worked around those two issues by calling a couple functions
at startup to try to warm up those child paths. That mostly worked,
but it broke programs using cgo with certain macOS frameworks (#57263).
CL 459175 reverted CL 451735.
This CL introduces a different fix: bypass the atfork child handlers
entirely. For a general fork call where the child and parent are both
meant to keep executing the original program, atfork handlers can be
necessary to fix any state that would otherwise be tied to the parent
process. But Go only uses fork as preparation for exec, and it takes
care to limit what it attempts to do in the child between the fork and
exec. In particular it doesn't use any of the things that the macOS
atfork handlers are trying to fix up (malloc, xpc, others). So we can
use the low-level fork system call (__fork) instead of the
atfork-wrapped one.
The full list of functions that can be called in a child after fork in
exec_libc2.go is:
I disassembled all of these while attached to a hung exec.test binary
and confirmed that nearly all of them are making direct kernel calls,
not using anything that the atfork handler needs to fix up.
The exceptions are ioctl, fcntl, and exit.
The ioctl and fcntl implementations do some extra work around the
kernel call but don't call any other functions, so they should still
be OK. (If not, we could use __ioctl and __fcntl instead, but without
a good reason, we should keep using the standard entry points.)
The exit implementation calls atexit handlers. That is almost
certainly inappropriate in a failed fork child, so this CL changes
that call to __exit on darwin. To avoid making unnecessary changes at
this point in the release cycle, this CL leaves OpenBSD calling plain
exit, even though that is probably a bug in the OpenBSD port
(filed #57446).
Fixes #33565.
Fixes #56784.
Fixes #57263.
Change-Id: I26812c26a72bdd7fcf72ec41899ba11cf6b9c4ab
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/459176 Reviewed-by: David Chase <drchase@google.com> Reviewed-by: Cherry Mui <cherryyz@google.com>
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