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0000483 [1003.1(2008)/Issue 7] System Interfaces Objection Enhancement Request 2011-08-03 22:54 2019-06-10 08:55
Reporter eblake View Status public  
Assigned To ajosey
Priority normal Resolution Accepted  
Status Closed  
Name Eric Blake
Organization Red Hat
User Reference ebb.socketpair
Section socketpair
Page Number 1970
Line Number 62593
Interp Status ---
Final Accepted Text
Summary 0000483: socketpair should not modify socket_vector on failure
Description The standard is currently silent on the contents of socket_vector[0]
and socket_vector[1] if socketpair( ) fails, however, in the
implementations that I surveyed, these values were unchanged. Adding
a requirement to enforce this behavior can simplify some coding
styles. Currently, I have to use:

int fd[2] = { -1, -1 };
...
//do some work, which might goto error
if (socketpair(dom, type, protocol, fd) < 0) {
  fd[0] = fd[1] = -1;
  goto error;
}
//do some more work, which might goto error
...
error:
  if (fd[0] != -1)
    close(fd[0]);
  if (fd[1] != -1)
    close(fd[1]);
  //more cleanup;

But if we guarantee that socket_vector is unchanged on error, then
the implementation can rely on the previous contents, and skip the
(re-)assignment of the fd contents to -1 on error, using:

if (socketpair(dom, type, protocol, fd) < 0)
  goto error;

This change is comparable to 0000467 on pipe( ).
Desired Action At line 62593 [XSH socketpair RETURN VALUE], change:

otherwise, −1 shall be returned and errno set to indicate the error.

to:

otherwise, −1 shall be returned, the contents of socket_vector left
unmodified, and errno set to indicate the error.
Tags tc2-2008
Attached Files

- Relationships
related to 0000467Closedajosey pipe should not modify fd on failure 
related to 0000520Closedajosey posix_memalign should not modify memptr on failure 
child of 0000623Closedajosey poll should not modify fds[i].fd and fds[i].events 

-  Notes
(0000918)
eblake (manager)
2011-08-03 22:57

 For the record, I tested with this program:

#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200811L
#define __EXTENSIONS__ 1
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
  int last;
  int fd[2] = {-2,-3};
  int err;
  /* Get to an EMFILE condition. */
  while (1) {
    int fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY);
    if (fd < 0) {
      printf ("after fd %d, open failed with errno %d %s\n",
          last, errno, strerror(errno));
      break;
    }
    last = fd;
  }
  /* Probe behavior */
  err = socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fd);
  if (err)
    printf ("try 1, socketpair returned %d errno %d %s, fds %d %d\n",
        err, errno, strerror(errno), fd[0], fd[1]);
  else
    printf ("try 1, socketpair succeeded, fds %d %d\n", fd[0], fd[1]);
  if (close(last))
    return 1;
  err = socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fd);
  if (err)
    printf ("try 2, socketpair returned %d errno %d %s, fds %d %d\n",
        err, errno, strerror(errno), fd[0], fd[1]);
  else
    printf ("try 2, socketpair succeeded, fds %d %d\n", fd[0], fd[1]);
  if (close(0))
    return 1;
  err = socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fd);
  if (err)
    printf ("try 3, socketpair returned %d errno %d %s, fds %d %d\n",
        err, errno, strerror(errno), fd[0], fd[1]);
  else
    printf ("try 3, socketpair succeeded, fds %d %d\n", fd[0], fd[1]);
  return 0;
}

And on all of AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
and MacOS, the output indicated EMFILE with fds still -2 and -3, showing
that it is common implementation practice to leave socket_vector
untouched on error.

- Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2011-08-03 22:54 eblake New Issue
2011-08-03 22:54 eblake Status New => Under Review
2011-08-03 22:54 eblake Assigned To => ajosey
2011-08-03 22:54 eblake Name => Eric Blake
2011-08-03 22:54 eblake Organization => Red Hat
2011-08-03 22:54 eblake User Reference => ebb.socketpair
2011-08-03 22:54 eblake Section => socketpair
2011-08-03 22:54 eblake Page Number => 1970
2011-08-03 22:54 eblake Line Number => 62593
2011-08-03 22:54 eblake Interp Status => ---
2011-08-03 22:57 eblake Note Added: 0000918
2011-08-03 22:58 eblake Relationship added related to 0000467
2011-08-11 16:04 jim_pugsley Status Under Review => Resolved
2011-08-11 16:04 jim_pugsley Resolution Open => Accepted
2011-08-11 16:04 jim_pugsley Tag Attached: tc2-2008
2011-11-29 14:16 eblake Relationship added related to 0000520
2013-02-07 16:53 eblake Relationship added child of 0000623
2019-06-10 08:55 agadmin Status Resolved => Closed

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