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sync: fix Notify to clone the waker before locking its waiter list
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Since a waker can trigger arbitrary code, such as with a custom waker,
and even more so now that it can emit a tracing event that could do
respond, we must be careful about the internal state when that code is
triggered. The clone method of a waker is one of those instances.

This changes the internals of `Notify` so that the waker is cloned
*before* locking the waiter list. While this does mean that in some
contended cases, we'll have made an optimistic clone, it makes `Notify`
more robust and correct.

Note that the included test case is built from an instance that did
happen naturally in another project, see
tokio-rs/console#133.
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seanmonstar committed Sep 22, 2021
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion tokio/src/sync/notify.rs
Expand Up @@ -551,6 +551,10 @@ impl Future for Notified<'_> {
return Poll::Ready(());
}

// Clone the waker before locking, a waker clone can be
// triggering arbitrary code.
let waker = cx.waker().clone();

// Acquire the lock and attempt to transition to the waiting
// state.
let mut waiters = notify.waiters.lock();
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -612,7 +616,7 @@ impl Future for Notified<'_> {

// Safety: called while locked.
unsafe {
(*waiter.get()).waker = Some(cx.waker().clone());
(*waiter.get()).waker = Some(waker);
}

// Insert the waiter into the linked list
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions tokio/src/sync/tests/mod.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
cfg_not_loom! {
mod atomic_waker;
mod notify;
mod semaphore_batch;
}

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44 changes: 44 additions & 0 deletions tokio/src/sync/tests/notify.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
use crate::sync::Notify;
use std::future::Future;
use std::mem::ManuallyDrop;
use std::sync::Arc;
use std::task::{Context, RawWaker, RawWakerVTable, Waker};

#[test]
fn notify_clones_waker_before_lock() {
const VTABLE: &RawWakerVTable = &RawWakerVTable::new(clone_w, wake, wake_by_ref, drop_w);

unsafe fn clone_w(data: *const ()) -> RawWaker {
let arc = ManuallyDrop::new(Arc::<Notify>::from_raw(data as *const Notify));
// Or some other arbitrary code that shouldn't be executed while the
// Notify wait list is locked.
arc.notify_one();
let _arc_clone: ManuallyDrop<_> = arc.clone();
RawWaker::new(data, VTABLE)
}

unsafe fn drop_w(data: *const ()) {
let _ = Arc::<Notify>::from_raw(data as *const Notify);
}

unsafe fn wake(_data: *const ()) {
unreachable!()
}

unsafe fn wake_by_ref(_data: *const ()) {
unreachable!()
}

let notify = Arc::new(Notify::new());
let notify2 = notify.clone();

let waker =
unsafe { Waker::from_raw(RawWaker::new(Arc::into_raw(notify2) as *const _, VTABLE)) };
let mut cx = Context::from_waker(&waker);

let future = notify.notified();
pin!(future);

// The result doesn't matter, we're just testing that we don't deadlock.
let _ = future.poll(&mut cx);
}

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