poll: avoid calling select with empty sets which hangs the process
Avoid calling select with empty sets which hangs the process
This makes uClibc-ng act like glibc and musl
Without this fix the test_poll of python3 testsuite hangs forever
Scenario of the issue:
If you call poll with only invalid file descriptors, like in python3
testsuite
(https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/test/test_poll.py#L83)
You will go through uClibc poll emulation code, which is based on
select syscall.
Your first call to select will fail, it will return -1 and errno will be
set to EBADF: https://github.com/wbx-github/uclibc-ng/blob/master/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/poll.c#L120
Then you will go through the for loop which tests individually each file descriptor by calling
select on each one: https://github.com/wbx-github/uclibc-ng/blob/master/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/poll.c#L163
each call will also return -1 with errno being equal to EBADF.
Therefore all pollfd will have the POLLNVAL flag in their respective revents field.
And, the most important, rset/wset/xset will stay empty.
Then the for loop ends, the "continue" makes the while loop run again.
The following select() is run again: https://github.com/wbx-github/uclibc-ng/blob/master/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/poll.c#L120
But this time the sets are empty.
If the poll was called with timeout set to -1, this select will hang forever because there is no timeout
and the sets are empty so no event will ever wake it up.
test program:
int main(void)
{
struct pollfd pfd;
int ret;
int pipe_fds[2];