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-rw-r--r--src/sys/signal.rs59
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/sys/signal.rs b/src/sys/signal.rs
index 0911cfaa..cbd5cfbe 100644
--- a/src/sys/signal.rs
+++ b/src/sys/signal.rs
@@ -584,9 +584,31 @@ impl SigAction {
match self.sigaction.sa_sigaction {
libc::SIG_DFL => SigHandler::SigDfl,
libc::SIG_IGN => SigHandler::SigIgn,
- f if self.flags().contains(SaFlags::SA_SIGINFO) =>
- SigHandler::SigAction( unsafe { mem::transmute(f) } ),
- f => SigHandler::Handler( unsafe { mem::transmute(f) } ),
+ p if self.flags().contains(SaFlags::SA_SIGINFO) =>
+ SigHandler::SigAction(
+ // Safe for one of two reasons:
+ // * The SigHandler was created by SigHandler::new, in which
+ // case the pointer is correct, or
+ // * The SigHandler was created by signal or sigaction, which
+ // are unsafe functions, so the caller should've somehow
+ // ensured that it is correctly initialized.
+ unsafe{
+ *(&p as *const usize
+ as *const extern fn(_, _, _))
+ }
+ as extern fn(_, _, _)),
+ p => SigHandler::Handler(
+ // Safe for one of two reasons:
+ // * The SigHandler was created by SigHandler::new, in which
+ // case the pointer is correct, or
+ // * The SigHandler was created by signal or sigaction, which
+ // are unsafe functions, so the caller should've somehow
+ // ensured that it is correctly initialized.
+ unsafe{
+ *(&p as *const usize
+ as *const extern fn(libc::c_int))
+ }
+ as extern fn(libc::c_int)),
}
}
@@ -596,7 +618,18 @@ impl SigAction {
match self.sigaction.sa_handler {
libc::SIG_DFL => SigHandler::SigDfl,
libc::SIG_IGN => SigHandler::SigIgn,
- f => SigHandler::Handler( unsafe { mem::transmute(f) } ),
+ p => SigHandler::Handler(
+ // Safe for one of two reasons:
+ // * The SigHandler was created by SigHandler::new, in which
+ // case the pointer is correct, or
+ // * The SigHandler was created by signal or sigaction, which
+ // are unsafe functions, so the caller should've somehow
+ // ensured that it is correctly initialized.
+ unsafe{
+ *(&p as *const usize
+ as *const extern fn(libc::c_int))
+ }
+ as extern fn(libc::c_int)),
}
}
}
@@ -608,9 +641,16 @@ impl SigAction {
///
/// # Safety
///
-/// Signal handlers may be called at any point during execution, which limits what is safe to do in
-/// the body of the signal-catching function. Be certain to only make syscalls that are explicitly
-/// marked safe for signal handlers and only share global data using atomics.
+/// * Signal handlers may be called at any point during execution, which limits
+/// what is safe to do in the body of the signal-catching function. Be certain
+/// to only make syscalls that are explicitly marked safe for signal handlers
+/// and only share global data using atomics.
+///
+/// * There is also no guarantee that the old signal handler was installed
+/// correctly. If it was installed by this crate, it will be. But if it was
+/// installed by, for example, C code, then there is no guarantee its function
+/// pointer is valid. In that case, this function effectively dereferences a
+/// raw pointer of unknown provenance.
pub unsafe fn sigaction(signal: Signal, sigaction: &SigAction) -> Result<SigAction> {
let mut oldact = mem::MaybeUninit::<libc::sigaction>::uninit();
@@ -689,7 +729,10 @@ pub unsafe fn signal(signal: Signal, handler: SigHandler) -> Result<SigHandler>
match oldhandler {
libc::SIG_DFL => SigHandler::SigDfl,
libc::SIG_IGN => SigHandler::SigIgn,
- f => SigHandler::Handler(mem::transmute(f)),
+ p => SigHandler::Handler(
+ *(&p as *const usize
+ as *const extern fn(libc::c_int))
+ as extern fn(libc::c_int)),
}
})
}