Fix: consumer data lock deadlock caused by monitor timer
authorJérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Mon, 8 May 2017 19:06:25 +0000 (15:06 -0400)
committerJérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Mon, 8 May 2017 19:23:12 +0000 (15:23 -0400)
commitfd9e9d3000de71e4272562410b2b223212f225e1
tree5b3d8b902c8586156aea47d11260fb32f4a016ec
parent1ce22976cffe91b41d298fdb5af63ce70ca0521e
Fix: consumer data lock deadlock caused by monitor timer

The execution of the monitor timer takes the consumer data lock
which causes three threads to deadlock.

The consumer_thread_data_poll_thread takes the lock during
the teardown of a channel. This teardown stops the channel's
timers and, to ensure that the timers are not fired on a free'd
channel, uses a custom SIG_TEARDOWN signal as a "bubble" inserted
the signal processing "queue". It then waits until this signal
has been processed to release the consumer data lock.

The sessiond_poll_thread is creating a channel and waits on
the consumer data lock.

Meanwhile, the timer thread is blocked on this same lock
during the processing of the monitor timer signal which
prevents the queue from being flushed, causing the destruction
of the channel to never reach completion.

There is no need to take the consumer data lock in the monitor
timer code since the channel's existence is guaranteed by
the SIG_TEARDOWN mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
src/common/consumer/consumer-timer.c
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