Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#1592 closed defect (fixed)

Multithreading issues in PJSIP (thanks to Matt Williams for the report and expert analysis)

Reported by: ming Owned by: bennylp
Priority: normal Milestone: release-2.1
Component: common Version: trunk
Keywords: Cc:
Backport to 1.x milestone: release-1.16 Backported: yes

Description

1) pj_timer_heap_poll examines the timer heap’s current size without taking its
lock

As in the summary, pj_timer_heap_poll examines ht->cur_size before taking the
lock. Another thread could be manipulating this at the same time.

2) Possible deadlock due to “lock order inversion” between transport and
transaction locks
Normally, when sending a message, the transaction lock is taken (in
pjsip_tsx_send_msg), followed by the transport lock (in tcp_send_msg). However,
when sending the first message on a new connection, we receive a callback from
the ioqueue layer to say that the TCP connection is connected
(on_connect_complete), causing us to take the transport lock, and then take the
transaction lock (in send_msg_callback).
Taking locks in different orders in different places is a common cause of
deadlock so we would like to prevent that happening.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by ming

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

In 4281:

Fixed #1592: Multithreading issues in PJSIP (fixing pj_timer_heap_poll() and lock order inversion in tcp/tls transport)

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by ming

In 4394:

Re #1592: Backported to 1.x

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by ming

  • Backported set
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