[libvirt PATCH] tests: fix deadlock in eventtest

Pavel Hrdina phrdina at redhat.com
Thu Feb 6 12:22:28 UTC 2020


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 <pkrempa at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina at redhat.com>
---
 tests/eventtest.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/eventtest.c b/tests/eventtest.c
index 9855b578fb..fc814922f2 100644
--- a/tests/eventtest.c
+++ b/tests/eventtest.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ VIR_LOG_INIT("tests.eventtest");
 
 static pthread_mutex_t eventThreadMutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
 static pthread_cond_t eventThreadCond = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER;
+static bool eventThreadSignaled;
 
 static struct handleInfo {
     int pipeFD[2];
@@ -138,8 +139,9 @@ testPipeReader(int watch, int fd, int events, void *data)
         virEventRemoveHandle(info->delete);
 
  cleanup:
-    pthread_mutex_unlock(&eventThreadMutex);
     pthread_cond_signal(&eventThreadCond);
+    eventThreadSignaled = true;
+    pthread_mutex_unlock(&eventThreadMutex);
 }
 
 
@@ -164,8 +166,9 @@ testTimer(int timer, void *data)
         virEventRemoveTimeout(info->delete);
 
  cleanup:
-    pthread_mutex_unlock(&eventThreadMutex);
     pthread_cond_signal(&eventThreadCond);
+    eventThreadSignaled = true;
+    pthread_mutex_unlock(&eventThreadMutex);
 }
 
 G_GNUC_NORETURN static void *eventThreadLoop(void *data G_GNUC_UNUSED) {
@@ -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;
 
         ngothandle = ngottimer = 0;
         for (i = 0; i < NUM_FDS; i++) {
-- 
2.24.1




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