GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-gmq2-39ff-f5qg A failed upgrade may lead to hung goroutines
LOW
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- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/cloudflare/tableflip
- Severity
- Low
- Reviewed
- 2021-05-21
Affected packages
• Go github.com/cloudflare/tableflip: < 1.2.2 → fixed in 1.2.2
Description
Impact
Processes using tableflip may encounter hung goroutines in the parent process, after a failed upgrade.
The Go runtime has annoying behaviour around setting and clearing
O_NONBLOCK: exec.Cmd.Start() ends up calling os.File.Fd() for any
file in exec.Cmd.ExtraFiles. os.File.Fd() disables both the use
of the runtime poller for the file and clears O_NONBLOCK from
the underlying open file descriptor.
This can lead to goroutines hanging in a parent process, after at least
one failed upgrade. The bug manifests in goroutines which rely on
either a deadline or interruption via Close() to be unblocked being stuck
in read or accept like syscalls. As far as I can tell we've not experienced
this problem in production, so it's most likely quite rare.
Patches
The problem has been fixed in v1.2.2.
Workarounds
None.
References
• https://github.com/cloudflare/tableflip/commit/cae714b289e199db5da5f08af861ea65be6232c0