On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 04:10:08PM +0200, Yann Ylavic wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 3:51 PM Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 3:19 PM Joe Orton <jor...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > If pthread_mutex_timedlock() is not supported, apr_thread_mutex_unlock()
> > > will take a locked mutex and immediately lock it again:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/apache/apr/blob/trunk/locks/unix/thread_mutex.c#L297
> > >
> > > APR_DECLARE(apr_status_t) apr_thread_mutex_unlock(apr_thread_mutex_t 
> > > *mutex)
> > > {
> > >     apr_status_t status;
> > >
> > >     if (mutex->cond) {
> > >         status = pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex->mutex);
> > >
> > > This is undefined behaviour unless APR ensures that mutex is recursive,
> > > which it doesn't AFAICT.
> >
> > When mutex->cond != NULL (ie !HAVE_PTHREAD_MUTEX_TIMEDLOCK),
> > apr_thread_mutex_lock() and co don't leave mutex->mutex locked (the
> > actual locking happens thanks to the ->cond wait on the ->locked
> > flag).
> >
> > So apr_thread_mutex_unlock() can (and actually must) lock ->mutex to
> > signal the ->cond and clear the ->locked.
> > What am I missing?

Ahhhh, that makes sense.  Sorry, I missed that, you're not missing 
anything, tracing through pages of Coverity output dulls my remaining 
brain capacity...

> Coverity likely can't figure out without the #ifdefs, so both your
> patch and the code look good to me :)

Great, thanks Yann.  I removed the other fields too and dropped the 
bogus comment, -> r1891204.

Regards, Joe

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