uucore: disable default signal-handlers added by Rust

src/uucore/src/lib/lib.rs

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 //! library ~ (core/bundler file)
 // #![deny(missing_docs)] //TODO: enable this
+//
+// spell-checker:ignore sigaction SIGBUS SIGSEGV
 
 // * feature-gated external crates (re-shared as public internal modules)
 #[cfg(feature = "libc")]
@@ -100,6 +102,12 @@
 
 //## core functions
 
+#[cfg(unix)]
+use nix::errno::Errno;
+#[cfg(unix)]
+use nix::sys::signal::{
+    sigaction, SaFlags, SigAction, SigHandler::SigDfl, SigSet, Signal::SIGBUS, Signal::SIGSEGV,
+};
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::ffi::OsStr;
 use std::ffi::OsString;
@@ -112,6 +120,25 @@
 
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 
+/// Disables the custom signal handlers installed by Rust for stack-overflow handling. With those custom signal handlers processes ignore the first SIGBUS and SIGSEGV signal they receive.
+/// See <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/8ac1525e091d3db28e67adcbbd6db1e1deaa37fb/src/libstd/sys/unix/stack_overflow.rs#L71-L92> for details.
+#[cfg(unix)]
+pub fn disable_rust_signal_handlers() -> Result<(), Errno> {
+    unsafe {
+        sigaction(
+            SIGSEGV,
+            &SigAction::new(SigDfl, SaFlags::empty(), SigSet::all()),
+        )
+    }?;
+    unsafe {
+        sigaction(
+            SIGBUS,
+            &SigAction::new(SigDfl, SaFlags::empty(), SigSet::all()),
+        )
+    }?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 /// Execute utility code for `util`.
 ///
 /// This macro expands to a main function that invokes the `uumain` function in `util`

src/uucore_procs/src/lib.rs

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 //
-// spell-checker:ignore backticks uuhelp
+// spell-checker:ignore backticks uuhelp SIGSEGV
 
 //! A collection of procedural macros for uutils.
 #![deny(missing_docs)]
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ pub fn main(_args: TokenStream, stream: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
     let new = quote!(
         pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> i32 {
             #stream
+
+            // disable rust signal handlers (otherwise processes don't dump core after e.g. one SIGSEGV)
+            #[cfg(unix)]
+            uucore::disable_rust_signal_handlers().expect("Disabling rust signal handlers failed");
             let result = uumain(args);
             match result {
                 Ok(()) => uucore::error::get_exit_code(),

tests/by-util/test_sleep.rs

@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 use rstest::rstest;
 
-// spell-checker:ignore dont
+// spell-checker:ignore dont SIGBUS SIGSEGV sigsegv sigbus
 use crate::common::util::TestScenario;
 
+#[cfg(unix)]
+use nix::sys::signal::Signal::{SIGBUS, SIGSEGV};
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 
 #[test]
@@ -135,6 +137,40 @@ fn test_sleep_wrong_time() {
     new_ucmd!().args(&["0.1s", "abc"]).fails();
 }
 
+#[test]
+#[cfg(unix)]
+fn test_sleep_stops_after_sigsegv() {
+    let mut child = new_ucmd!()
+        .arg("100")
+        .timeout(Duration::from_secs(10))
+        .run_no_wait();
+
+    child
+        .delay(100)
+        .kill_with_custom_signal(SIGSEGV)
+        .make_assertion()
+        .with_current_output()
+        .signal_is(SIGSEGV as i32) // make sure it was us who terminated the process
+        .no_output();
+}
+
+#[test]
+#[cfg(unix)]
+fn test_sleep_stops_after_sigbus() {
+    let mut child = new_ucmd!()
+        .arg("100")
+        .timeout(Duration::from_secs(10))
+        .run_no_wait();
+
+    child
+        .delay(100)
+        .kill_with_custom_signal(SIGBUS)
+        .make_assertion()
+        .with_current_output()
+        .signal_is(SIGBUS as i32) // make sure it was us who terminated the process
+        .no_output();
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn test_sleep_when_single_input_exceeds_max_duration_then_no_error() {
     let mut child = new_ucmd!()

tests/common/util.rs

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
 //spell-checker: ignore (linux) rlimit prlimit coreutil ggroups uchild uncaptured scmd SHLVL canonicalized openpty
-//spell-checker: ignore (linux) winsize xpixel ypixel setrlimit FSIZE
+//spell-checker: ignore (linux) winsize xpixel ypixel setrlimit FSIZE SIGBUS SIGSEGV sigbus
 
 #![allow(dead_code)]
 #![allow(
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 use libc::mode_t;
 #[cfg(unix)]
 use nix::pty::OpenptyResult;
+#[cfg(unix)]
+use nix::sys;
 use pretty_assertions::assert_eq;
 #[cfg(unix)]
 use rlimit::setrlimit;
@@ -2095,7 +2097,7 @@
         self.delay(millis).make_assertion()
     }
 
-    /// Try to kill the child process and wait for it's termination.
+    /// Try to kill the child process and wait for its termination.
     ///
     /// This method blocks until the child process is killed, but returns an error if `self.timeout`
     /// or the default of 60s was reached. If no such error happened, the process resources are
@@ -2155,6 +2157,75 @@
         self
     }
 
+    /// Try to kill the child process and wait for its termination.
+    ///
+    /// This method blocks until the child process is killed, but returns an error if `self.timeout`
+    /// or the default of 60s was reached. If no such error happened, the process resources are
+    /// released, so there is usually no need to call `wait` or alike on unix systems although it's
+    /// still possible to do so.
+    ///
+    /// # Platform specific behavior
+    ///
+    /// On unix systems the child process resources will be released like a call to [`Child::wait`]
+    /// or alike would do.
+    ///
+    /// # Error
+    ///
+    /// If [`Child::kill`] returned an error or if the child process could not be terminated within
+    /// `self.timeout` or the default of 60s.
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    pub fn try_kill_with_custom_signal(
+        &mut self,
+        signal_name: sys::signal::Signal,
+    ) -> io::Result<()> {
+        let start = Instant::now();
+        sys::signal::kill(
+            nix::unistd::Pid::from_raw(self.raw.id().try_into().unwrap()),
+            signal_name,
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+
+        let timeout = self.timeout.unwrap_or(Duration::from_secs(60));
+        // As a side effect, we're cleaning up the killed child process with the implicit call to
+        // `Child::try_wait` in `self.is_alive`, which reaps the process id on unix systems. We
+        // always fail with error on timeout if `self.timeout` is set to zero.
+        while self.is_alive() || timeout == Duration::ZERO {
+            if start.elapsed() < timeout {
+                self.delay(10);
+            } else {
+                return Err(io::Error::new(
+                    io::ErrorKind::Other,
+                    format!("kill: Timeout of '{}s' reached", timeout.as_secs_f64()),
+                ));
+            }
+            hint::spin_loop();
+        }
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Terminate the child process using custom signal parameter and wait for the termination.
+    ///
+    /// Ignores any errors happening during [`Child::kill`] (i.e. child process already exited) but
+    /// still panics on timeout.
+    ///
+    /// # Panics
+    /// If the child process could not be terminated within `self.timeout` or the default of 60s.
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    pub fn kill_with_custom_signal(&mut self, signal_name: sys::signal::Signal) -> &mut Self {
+        self.try_kill_with_custom_signal(signal_name)
+            .or_else(|error| {
+                // We still throw the error on timeout in the `try_kill` function
+                if error.kind() == io::ErrorKind::Other {
+                    Err(error)
+                } else {
+                    Ok(())
+                }
+            })
+            .unwrap();
+        self
+    }
+
     /// Wait for the child process to terminate and return a [`CmdResult`].
     ///
     /// See [`UChild::wait_with_output`] for details on timeouts etc. This method can also be run if