On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:26:41 +0100 Sebastian Dransfeld <s...@tango.flipp.net>
said:

> On 02/02/2012 10:00 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:06:01 +0000 (GMT) Jeong-Hyun Yun
> > <jh0506....@samsung.com>  said:
> >
> >> Dear All.
> >>
> >> I removed potential risk in ecore_ipc_shutdown.
> >>
> >> If servers can't eina_list removed in ecore_ipc_server_del(),
> >> for example, delete_me is true or event_count  == 0 or etc.,
> >> then the while loop will be infinite.
> >>
> >> I modified EINA_LIST_FOREACH instead of while loop.
> >>
> >> Please review this patch.
> >
> > this is dangerous. very. take a look at this line in ecore_ipc_server_del():
> >
> >          servers = eina_list_remove(servers, svr);
> >
> > so what happens when as you walk a list.. you remove the exact item you are
> > walking... then you try use the list node ->next member.. that you just
> > freed? :)
> >
> > this is not a fix. it's asking for segv's.
> >
> > you issue is this:
> >
> >     if (svr->event_count == 0)
> >
> >
> > ie it wont remove until events have been spooled out from the server. this
> > wont happen until the mainloop goes and runs again, so you have a problem.
> > what i'd do is have a routine before u server_del that finds all events for
> > that server and deletes them. :) the problem is that there isn't a list of
> > these per server. all the events point back to this server so u basically
> > have a referencing issue. if a ref that wont be removed until mainlooop
> > flushes the events. you want to look over there.
> >
> 
> EINA_LIST_FOREACH_SAFE()

i guess that could work too - though you still have events in a queue...
pointing back to a server u now deleted. :/ i guess the qhole issue is one
of... is this really valid - should you be able to init again after a shutdown
(in the same process) and pick up again with no crashes/problems?

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com


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