On 18 August 2014 16:51, Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrm...@wandisco.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Ivan Zhakov <i...@visualsvn.com> wrote:
>>
>> Stefan,
>>
>> I've noticed another severe issue in named atomic infrastructure used
>> by revprop caching code while reviewing r1611379 fix:
>> svn_atomic_namespace__create() doesn't release file lock and
>> process-wide mutex (!) on error in libsvn_subr\named_atomic.c:446.
>
>
> Thanks for the report, fixed in r1617687.
>
>>
>> Which is basically mean that server will be deadlocked if *any* of
>> named atomic shared file contains some invalid data.
>
> That specific error condition means that something randomly
> modified or modifies on-disk data on your server. A deadlock
> is probably not the worst effect in that case ...

What do you consider to be the worst effect here?

Have you considered cloud servers with thousands of repositories that
could be deadlocked because of a SINGLE corrupted repository?


-- 
Ivan Zhakov

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