Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#520 closed defect (fixed)

Race condition may cause ioqueue corruption (thanks Philippe Leuba)

Reported by: bennylp Owned by: bennylp
Priority: normal Milestone: release-0.9.0
Component: pjlib Version: trunk
Keywords: Cc:
Backport to 1.x milestone: Backported:

Description

Quoting Philippe email:

When I destroy the transports, they call pj_ioqueue_unregister with the key as parameter. The function start by calling pj_list_erase(key), then decrement_counter when PJ_IOQUEUE_HAS_SAFE_UNREG is set. The problem is that decrement_counter call pj_list_erase(key) once again. Depending the timing between the main thread and the worker thread, this double call to pj_list_erase can corrupt the list, apparently because some element can be put in the closing_list in the meantime.

This is because pj_list_erase do not reset next and prev pointer of the key, but only link together the prev and next elements.

I fixed the problem by putting the pj_list_erase between ifdef:

#if !PJ_IOQUEUE_HAS_SAFE_UNREG
   pj_list_erase(key);
#endif

An other solution, more general would be to modify pj_list_erase in order reset the next and prev pointer of the key to itself like pj_list_init does.

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by bennylp

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

Fixed in r1905. Thanks Philippe.

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