[PATCH v5 0/1] MR155: ntdll: Fix reading stale Information from IOSB.

[Jinoh Kang (＠iamahuman)]

Enforce proper atomic update so that other threads do not read stale
data from IO_STATUS_BLOCK.

Signed-off-by: Jinoh Kang <jinoh.kang.kr(a)gmail.com>

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  v5: ntdll: Fix reading stale Information from IOSB.
 
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/155

[PATCH v5 1/1] ntdll: Fix reading stale Information from IOSB.

[Jinoh Kang]

From: Jinoh Kang <jinoh.kang.kr(a)gmail.com>

Ensure proper atomic update, so that other threads do not read stale
information from IO_STATUS_BLOCK.
---
 dlls/ntdll/unix/unix_private.h | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dlls/ntdll/unix/unix_private.h b/dlls/ntdll/unix/unix_private.h
index 47f0f9c56a9..3939186ad05 100644
--- a/dlls/ntdll/unix/unix_private.h
+++ b/dlls/ntdll/unix/unix_private.h
@@ -361,6 +361,8 @@ static inline BOOL in_wow64_call(void)
 
 static inline void set_async_iosb( client_ptr_t iosb, NTSTATUS status, ULONG_PTR info )
 {
+    NTSTATUS *status_ptr;
+
     if (!iosb) return;
 
     if (in_wow64_call())
@@ -370,19 +372,36 @@ static inline void set_async_iosb( client_ptr_t iosb, NTSTATUS status, ULONG_PTR
             NTSTATUS Status;
             ULONG    Information;
         } *io = wine_server_get_ptr( iosb );
-        io->Status = status;
+        status_ptr = &io->Status;
         io->Information = info;
     }
     else
     {
         IO_STATUS_BLOCK *io = wine_server_get_ptr( iosb );
 #ifdef NONAMELESSUNION
-        io->u.Status = status;
+        status_ptr = &io->u.Status;
 #else
-        io->Status = status;
+        status_ptr = &io->Status;
 #endif
         io->Information = info;
     }
+
+    /* GetOverlappedResultEx() skips waiting for the event/file handle if the
+     * Status field indicates completion, and returns the result from the
+     * Information field.
+     *
+     * Hence, we have to ensure that writes to the Information field are seen
+     * from the other threads *before* writes to the Status field.
+     *
+     * Otherwise, a race condition results: if writing the Status field has
+     * been completed but the subsequent update to the Information field has
+     * not, the application may end up reading stale value from it.
+     *
+     * The race condition can be especially problematic with applications that
+     * use the HasOverlappedIoCompleted() macro in a tight loop to poll for
+     * completion of overlapped I/O.
+     */
+    WriteRelease( (volatile LONG *)status_ptr, status );
 }
 
 static inline client_ptr_t iosb_client_ptr( IO_STATUS_BLOCK *io )
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GitLab

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/155