On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 13:22:28 +0100, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> There is a race deadlock in eventtest after the recent rewrite to drop
> GNULIB from libvirt code base.
>
> The issue happens when the callbacks testPipeReader() or testTimer()
> are called before waitEvents() starts waiting on `eventThreadCond`.
> It will never happen because the callbacks are already done and there
> is nothing that will signal the condition again.
>
> Reported-by: Peter Krempa <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <[email protected]>
> ---
> tests/eventtest.c | 12 +++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
[...]
> @@ -185,7 +188,10 @@ waitEvents(int nhandle, int ntimer)
> VIR_DEBUG("Wait events nhandle %d ntimer %d",
> nhandle, ntimer);
> while (ngothandle != nhandle || ngottimer != ntimer) {
> - pthread_cond_wait(&eventThreadCond, &eventThreadMutex);
> + while (!eventThreadSignaled)
> + pthread_cond_wait(&eventThreadCond, &eventThreadMutex);
> +
> + eventThreadSignaled = 0;
s/0/false/
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <[email protected]>
>
> ngothandle = ngottimer = 0;
> for (i = 0; i < NUM_FDS; i++) {
> --
> 2.24.1
>
