Deadlock of the process tree when running make

[Takashi Yano]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:48:04 +0300
Alexey Izbyshev wrote:
> On 2022-04-11 13:10, Alexey Izbyshev wrote:
> > On 2022-04-11 11:35, Takashi Yano wrote:
> >> On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 23:49:29 +0300
> >> A countermeasure version is available at the following location:
> >> https://tyan0.yr32.net/cygwin/x86/test/cygwin1-20220411.dll.xz
> >> https://tyan0.yr32.net/cygwin/x86_64/test/cygwin1-20220411.dll.xz
> >> 
> >> Could you please test? To keep the hanging tree, please install
> >> cygwin another directory, and replace cygwin1.dll with the
> >> countermeasure version.
> >> 
> > Thank you for providing the binaries! I've started testing in a
> > separate cygwin installation on the same machine, as you suggested.
> > The hang previously took many hours to reproduce, so I'll keep tests
> > running for a while and then report back.
> > 
> The good news is that the tests have been running for two days so far 
> without any cygwin-related issues, so the patched version doesn't seem 
> to introduce new issues.
> 
> The bad news is my theory about the suspicious "Unnamed file: 
> \FileSystem\Npfs" in the hanging bash.exe being a leak seems to be 
> wrong. I've closed that handle, but conhost.exe hasn't unblocked. All of 
> its threads are doing the same things as before:
> 
> 1. Tries to enter a critical section. (Task Manager claims it waits for
> thread 4, so probably the latter owns it).
> 2. ReadFile("pty1-from-master-nat" named pipe)
> 3. Waits for an anonymous event.
> 4. Waits on a handle for "\Device\ConDrv" (in DeviceIoControl()).
> 5. Blocked in GetMessageW().
> 
> I've created a model situation with bash.exe stopped at a breakpoint in 
> ClosePseudoConsole() at another machine again, and it seems that the 
> last time I missed that bash.exe contains *two* handles for (different) 
> "Unnamed file: \FileSystem\Npfs" here too, so it seems to be normal.
> 
> What's probably not normal is the behavior of the hanging conhost.exe. 
> I've compared the points where conhost.exe is blocked, and all but one 
> threads in the model case are doing the same things as in the hanging 
> case, but the remaining thread is blocked in 
> ReadFile("\Device\NamedPipe\") (i.e. the read end of "hWritePipe" of 
> pcon) instead of trying to enter a critical section like thread 1 above. 
> So now I'm starting to doubt that it's a cygwin bug and not some 
> conhost.exe bug.
> 
> I'll try to poke around the hanging conhost.exe some more, and also may 
> be will try to create a faster reproducer.

Thanks for testing.

Question is:
Is the issue reproduced using new cygwin1.dll? Or is it still
running without the issue so far?

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>