Re: [BUG] improper locking due to the unreleased lock

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 12.10.21 08:54, Ryan Cai wrote:
> Dear maintainers for Xen Project,
>
>               I am writing you to report a bug due to the unreleased 
> lock. The impact could be deadlock or memory consumption. In the 
> function of /read_watch_internal/, the mutex lock /h->watch_mutex/ 
> (*Line901*) is not released correctly when 
> /read_message(h,nonblocking)== -1/(*Line 923*). Looking forward to your 
> feedback. Thank for checking.
> Locations, 
> https://github.com/xen-project/xen/blob/master/tools/libs/store/xs.c#L902-L924
Thanks for the report.

From looking at read_watch_internal() this seems to be right, but this
is no issue in reality.

The missing mutex_unlock() is inside a !USE_PTHREAD section. This
implies muex_lock() and mutex_unlock() being defined as ((void)0),
so there is no risk of anything going wrong.

Even with no risk something going wrong here, the code should be
corrected nevertheless in order to avoid others to stumble over that.


Juergen

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