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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2009-01-30 13:49:41 +0100
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2009-01-30 13:49:41 +0100
commit2cfaf5f86a4fb40cc37ae71118c506f1d924df13 (patch)
tree4ddc545b4d091885404f04c7fa06cc199e752c8e /runtime
parentce11f7bdb8db977a8b00b28d9b84d1b1c924f3c3 (diff)
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bugfix: inconsistent use of mutex/atomic operations could cause segfault
details are too many, for full analysis see blog post at: http://blog.gerhards.net/2009/01/rsyslog-data-race-analysis.html
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime')
-rw-r--r--runtime/atomic.h2
-rw-r--r--runtime/msg.c13
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/atomic.h b/runtime/atomic.h
index 2dbe7f52..2c20e0c3 100644
--- a/runtime/atomic.h
+++ b/runtime/atomic.h
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
# define ATOMIC_FETCH_32BIT(data) ((unsigned) __sync_fetch_and_and(&(data), 0xffffffff))
# define ATOMIC_STORE_1_TO_32BIT(data) __sync_lock_test_and_set(&(data), 1)
#else
-# warning "atomic builtins not available, using nul operations"
+# warning "atomic builtins not available, using nul operations - rsyslogd will probably be racy!"
# define ATOMIC_INC(data) (++(data))
# define ATOMIC_DEC_AND_FETCH(data) (--(data))
# define ATOMIC_FETCH_32BIT(data) (data)
diff --git a/runtime/msg.c b/runtime/msg.c
index 3073fc5f..038e002a 100644
--- a/runtime/msg.c
+++ b/runtime/msg.c
@@ -281,14 +281,13 @@ finalize_it:
BEGINobjDestruct(msg) /* be sure to specify the object type also in END and CODESTART macros! */
int currRefCount;
CODESTARTobjDestruct(msg)
- /* DEV Debugging only ! dbgprintf("msgDestruct\t0x%lx, Ref now: %d\n", (unsigned long)pM, pM->iRefCount - 1); */
-//# ifdef DO_HAVE_ATOMICS
-// currRefCount = ATOMIC_DEC_AND_FETCH(pThis->iRefCount);
-//# else
+ /* DEV Debugging only ! dbgprintf("msgDestruct\t0x%lx, Ref now: %d\n", (unsigned long)pThis, pThis->iRefCount - 1); */
+# ifdef HAVE_ATOMIC_BUILTINS
+ currRefCount = ATOMIC_DEC_AND_FETCH(pThis->iRefCount);
+# else
MsgLock(pThis);
currRefCount = --pThis->iRefCount;
-//# endif
-// we need a mutex, because we may be suspended after getting the refcount but before
+# endif
if(currRefCount == 0)
{
/* DEV Debugging Only! dbgprintf("msgDestruct\t0x%lx, RefCount now 0, doing DESTROY\n", (unsigned long)pThis); */
@@ -348,7 +347,9 @@ CODESTARTobjDestruct(msg)
rsCStrDestruct(&pThis->pCSPROCID);
if(pThis->pCSMSGID != NULL)
rsCStrDestruct(&pThis->pCSMSGID);
+# ifndef HAVE_ATOMIC_BUILTINS
MsgUnlock(pThis);
+# endif
funcDeleteMutex(pThis);
} else {
MsgUnlock(pThis);