Fix for #4955 -- Race condition & memory leak in Puppet::Util

The Puppet::Util.sync method was not thread safe and also leaked memory. I'm
not certain, but I believe the first is ironic and the second is merely a bug.

This patch addresses the problem by 1) refactoring so the sync objects
are never returned (and thus no one can cache a reference to one) 2) adding
reference counting 3) deleting them when they are no longer needed 4) doing
the thread safty dance.

It wasn't the first (or even second) solution considered, but it's the one
that I was able to make work in a way that I'm convinced is correct.  Its
main advantage is that it puts all the tricky bits in one place.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/spec/unit/network/server_spec.rb b/spec/unit/network/server_spec.rb
index ccd9c082e..c2496dcca 100755
--- a/spec/unit/network/server_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/unit/network/server_spec.rb
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../spec_helper'
 require 'puppet/network/server'
+require 'puppet/network/handler'
 
 describe Puppet::Network::Server do
   before do
@@ -161,11 +162,7 @@ describe Puppet::Network::Server do
   describe "when creating its pidfile" do
     it "should use an exclusive mutex" do
       Puppet.settings.expects(:value).with(:name).returns "me"
-
-      sync = mock 'sync'
-      Puppet::Util.expects(:sync).with("me").returns sync
-
-      sync.expects(:synchronize).with(Sync::EX)
+      Puppet::Util.expects(:synchronize_on).with("me",Sync::EX)
       @server.create_pidfile
     end
 
@@ -198,11 +195,7 @@ describe Puppet::Network::Server do
   describe "when removing its pidfile" do
     it "should use an exclusive mutex" do
       Puppet.settings.expects(:value).with(:name).returns "me"
-
-      sync = mock 'sync'
-      Puppet::Util.expects(:sync).with("me").returns sync
-
-      sync.expects(:synchronize).with(Sync::EX)
+      Puppet::Util.expects(:synchronize_on).with("me",Sync::EX)
       @server.remove_pidfile
     end