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When using GNU Make's jobserver feature in kernel builds, a bug in MAKEFLAGS propagation caused "--jobserver-auth=r,w" to reference an unintended file descriptor. This led to infinite loops in jobserver-exec's os.read() calls due to empty token. My shell opened /etc/passwd for some reason without closing it, and as a result, all child processes inherited this fd 3. $ ls -l /proc/self/fd total 0 lrwx------ 1 changbin changbin 64 Dec 25 13:03 0 -> /dev/pts/1 lrwx------ 1 changbin changbin 64 Dec 25 13:03 1 -> /dev/pts/1 lrwx------ 1 changbin changbin 64 Dec 25 13:03 2 -> /dev/pts/1 lr-x------ 1 changbin changbin 64 Dec 25 13:03 3 -> /etc/passwd lr-x------ 1 changbin changbin 64 Dec 25 13:03 4 -> /proc/1421383/fd In this case, the `make` should open a new file descriptor for jobserver control, but clearly, it did not do so and instead still passed fd 3 as "--jobserver-auth=3,4" in MAKEFLAGS. (The version of my gnu make is 4.3) This update ensures robustness against invalid jobserver configurations, even when `make` incorrectly pass non-pipe file descriptors. * Rejecting empty reads to prevent infinite loops on EOF. * Clearing `self.jobs` to avoid writing to incorrect files if invalid tokens are detected. * Printing detailed error messages to stderr to inform the user. Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260108113836.2976527-1-changbin.du@huawei.com> |
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