The TSRM keeps a hashtable mapping the thread IDs to the thread resource pointers.
It's possible that the thread disappears without us knowing, and then another thread
gets spawned some time later with the same ID as the disappeared thread.
Note that since it's a new thread the TSRM key pointer and cached pointer will be NULL.
The Apache request handler `php_handler()` will try to fetch some fields from the SAPI globals.
It uses a lazy thread resource allocation by calling `ts_resource(0);`.
This allocates a thread resource and sets up the TSRM pointers if they haven't been set up yet.
At least, that's what's supposed to happen. But since we are in a situation where the thread ID
still has the resources of the *old* thread associated in the hashtable,
the loop in `ts_resource_ex` will find that thread resource and assume the thread has been setup
already. But this is not the case since this thread is actually a new thread, just reusing the ID
of the old one, without any relation whatsoever to the old thread.
Because of this assumption, the TSRM pointers will not be setup, leading to a
NULL pointer dereference when trying to access the SAPI globals.
We can easily detect this scenario: if we're in the fallback path, and the pointer is NULL,
and we're looking for our own thread resource, we know we're actually reusing a thread ID.
In that case, we'll free up the old thread resources gracefully (gracefully because
there might still be resources open like database connection which need to be
shut down cleanly). After freeing the resources, we'll create the new resources for
this thread as if the stale resources never existed in the first place.
From that point forward, it is as if that situation never occurred.
The fact that this situation happens isn't that bad because a child process containing
threads will eventually be respawned anyway by the SAPI, so the stale thread resources
won't remain forever.
Note that we can't simply assign our own TSRM pointers to the existing
thread resource for our ID, since it was actually from a different thread
(just with the same ID!). Furthermore, the dynamically loaded extensions
have their own pointer, which is only set when their constructor is
called, so we'd have to call their constructor anyway...
I also tried to call the dtor and then the ctor again for those resources
on the pre-existing thread resource to reuse storage, but that didn't work properly
because other code doesn't expect something like that to happen, which breaks assumptions,
and this in turn caused Valgrind to (rightfully) complain about memory bugs.
Note 2: I also had to fix a bug in the core globals destruction because it
always assumed that the thread destroying them was the owning thread,
which on TSRM shutdown isn't always the case. A similar bug was fixed
recently with the JIT globals.
Closes GH-10863.
1. Update: http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt to https, as there is anyway server header "Location:" to https.
2. Update few license 3.0 to 3.01 as 3.0 states "php 5.1.1, 4.1.1, and earlier".
3. In some license comments is "at through the world-wide-web" while most is without "at", so deleted.
4. fixed indentation in some files before |
This patch removes the so called local variables defined per
file basis for certain editors to properly show tab width, and
similar settings. These are mainly used by Vim and Emacs editors
yet with recent changes the once working definitions don't work
anymore in Vim without custom plugins or additional configuration.
Neither are these settings synced across the PHP code base.
A simpler and better approach is EditorConfig and fixing code
using some code style fixing tools in the future instead.
This patch also removes the so called modelines for Vim. Modelines
allow Vim editor specifically to set some editor configuration such as
syntax highlighting, indentation style and tab width to be set in the
first line or the last 5 lines per file basis. Since the php test
files have syntax highlighting already set in most editors properly and
EditorConfig takes care of the indentation settings, this patch removes
these as well for the Vim 6.0 and newer versions.
With the removal of local variables for certain editors such as
Emacs and Vim, the footer is also probably not needed anymore when
creating extensions using ext_skel.php script.
Additionally, Vim modelines for setting php syntax and some editor
settings has been removed from some *.phpt files. All these are
mostly not relevant for phpt files neither work properly in the
middle of the file.
The $Id$ keywords were used in Subversion where they can be substituted
with filename, last revision number change, last changed date, and last
user who changed it.
In Git this functionality is different and can be done with Git attribute
ident. These need to be defined manually for each file in the
.gitattributes file and are afterwards replaced with 40-character
hexadecimal blob object name which is based only on the particular file
contents.
This patch simplifies handling of $Id$ keywords by removing them since
they are not used anymore.
Added PHP API for registering tick functions. Ticks is a per-instruction
callback in Zend that allows us to implement cooperative multitasking
within PHP. Example:
In extension code:
php_add_tick_function(my_tick_func);
void my_tick_func(int count) {
php_printf("[tick %d]", count);
}
In PHP code:
<?php
declare(ticks = 1) {
print "there should be two ticks here.\n";
}
?>
Draft 3 of IEEE 1003.1 200x, "2.2 The Compilation Environment"
All identifiers that begin with an underscore and either an uppercase
letter or another underscore are always reserved for any use by the
implementation.
Niels Dossche