Process.daemon deadlock bug

Sam Kottler skottler at redhat.com
Mon Nov 25 02:15:10 UTC 2013



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vít Ondruch" <vondruch at redhat.com>
> To: ruby-sig at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 4:05:28 AM
> Subject: Re: Process.daemon deadlock bug
> 
> Dne 22.11.2013 20:37, Sam Kottler napsal(a):
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Vít Ondruch" <vondruch at redhat.com>
> >> To: ruby-sig at lists.fedoraproject.org
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 5:43:32 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Process.daemon deadlock bug
> >>
> >> Dne 21.11.2013 00:08, Sam Kottler napsal(a):
> >>> There is a pretty severe bug that's probably a good candidate for
> >>> backport
> >>> to F20 and rawhide. The patch [1] reduces a potential deadlock with using
> >>> Process.daemon. I can commit the patch and build a new version for the
> >>> affected versions, just want to make sure people are on-board with
> >>> pushing
> >>> this into our packages until 2.1 final is released.
> >>>
> >>> -Sam
> >>>
> >>> 1.
> >>> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/repository/revisions/41910/diff/process.c
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> >> Hi Sam,
> >>
> >> What is the original upstream issue? Is it backported to Ruby 2.0.0
> >> already?
> > https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8616
> >
> > It is backported to 2.0 -
> > http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?revision=43142&view=revision.
> 
> Ok, thanks. Since new version of Ruby was released at Friday, they will
> fix also this issue. Somebody should do rebase in all branches.

Yeah, we need to bump the version to fix the latest CVE. Do you want to work on that or should I start on it?

> 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1033546
> 
> 
> 
> Vít
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