Summary: ntfa: fix deadlock situation due to saNtfFinalize [#1521]. Review request for Trac Ticket(s): #1521 Peer Reviewer(s): Lennart, Minh H Chau. Pull request to: <<LIST THE PERSON WITH PUSH ACCESS HERE>> Affected branch(es): ALL Development branch: <<IF ANY GIVE THE REPO URL>>
-------------------------------- Impacted area Impact y/n -------------------------------- Docs n Build system n RPM/packaging n Configuration files n Startup scripts n SAF services y OpenSAF services n Core libraries n Samples n Tests n Other n Comments (indicate scope for each "y" above): --------------------------------------------- changeset d65e6a5a1b2509a37729406b2fd9ba5f6fecbbfd Author: [email protected] Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:45:59 +0530 ntfa: fix deadlock situation due to saNtfFinalize [#1521]. Generally any API called after finalize returns with BAD_HANDLE. But in a multi-threaded application, deadlock situation may arise between saNtfFinalize() with saNtfNotificationUnsubscribe(), or with saNtfStateChangeNotificationAllocate(), or with and saNtfPtrValAllocate(). After getting successful response from the server, saNtfFinalize() takes lock on ntfa_cb.cb_lock and tries to free all the handles and resources. Here it gets block in ntfa_hdl_rec_del() ---->ncshm_destroy_hdl() (actually in in ncshm_destroy_hdl()--->hm_block_me())) as client_handle is in use by other threads and waits for it to get released. At the same time, one of the above three APIS may be waiting for taking the lock on ntfa_cb.cb_lock which is not avialable as it is taken by saNtfFinalize(). From the solution perspective, the LEAP API where santfFinalize() gets blocked wants other threads to complete thier functionality and release the handle. In this situation, new API calls will return with BAD_HANDLE (LEAP functionality take_handle() fails) and existing API calls which has already taken the client_handle will be able to give back client_handle (LEAP functionality give_handle()). So if the lock is removed from Finalize(), other APIS will be able to complete their call and will return handle one by one which eventually will unblock saNtfFinalize(). Complete diffstat: ------------------ osaf/libs/agents/saf/ntfa/ntfa_api.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Testing Commands: ----------------- Tested by using the application attached in this ticket. TODO:Will test for other two APIS mentioned in the ticket. Testing, Expected Results: -------------------------- Deadlock situation is not observed. Conditions of Submission: ------------------------- Ack from any reviewer before RC tag for 4.7. 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