[Libguestfs] [RFC: nbdkit PATCH] cleanup: Assert mutex sanity
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Wed Apr 24 08:03:23 UTC 2019
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:07:14PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> Although we haven't always checked that pthread_mutex_[un]lock
> succeeded, it never hurts to avoid blatant programming bugs such as
> when EINVAL can detect use of an uninitialized mutex.
I see no reason not to do this, so ACK. I'll push this one as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
> ---
>
> Applies on top of my series to move cleanup.c to common/
>
> Should I also go through and add checking to other bare
> pthread_mutex_[un]lock() calls?
Yes please!
Thanks,
Rich.
> common/utils/cleanup.h | 5 ++++-
> common/utils/cleanup.c | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/utils/cleanup.h b/common/utils/cleanup.h
> index e6e6140..0ab9e65 100644
> --- a/common/utils/cleanup.h
> +++ b/common/utils/cleanup.h
> @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ extern void cleanup_unlock (pthread_mutex_t **ptr);
> #define CLEANUP_UNLOCK __attribute__((cleanup (cleanup_unlock)))
> #define ACQUIRE_LOCK_FOR_CURRENT_SCOPE(mutex) \
> CLEANUP_UNLOCK pthread_mutex_t *_lock = mutex; \
> - pthread_mutex_lock (_lock)
> + do { \
> + int _r = pthread_mutex_lock (_lock); \
> + assert (!_r); \
> + } while (0)
>
> #endif /* NBDKIT_CLEANUP_H */
> diff --git a/common/utils/cleanup.c b/common/utils/cleanup.c
> index 196d910..995f46c 100644
> --- a/common/utils/cleanup.c
> +++ b/common/utils/cleanup.c
> @@ -53,5 +53,6 @@ cleanup_extents_free (void *ptr)
> void
> cleanup_unlock (pthread_mutex_t **ptr)
> {
> - pthread_mutex_unlock (*ptr);
> + int r = pthread_mutex_unlock (*ptr);
> + assert (!r);
> }
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