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author | Vito Caputo <vcaputo@gnugeneration.com> | 2016-04-25 10:58:16 -0700 |
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committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-04-25 19:58:16 +0200 |
commit | b8f99e27e13658fd1e33c0e677f657514abc6538 (patch) | |
tree | c60e92b308841f584b7c69e8df38a04a7418213c /src/journal/journal-authenticate.h | |
parent | d2773e59de3dd970d861e9f996bc48de20ef4314 (diff) |
journal: fix already offline check and thread leak (#2810)
Early in journal_file_set_offline() f->header->state is tested to see if
it's != STATE_ONLINE, and since there's no need to do anything if the
journal isn't online, the function simply returned here.
Since moving part of the offlining process to a separate thread, there
are two problems here:
1. We can't simply check f->header->state, because if there is an
offline thread active it may modify f->header->state.
2. Even if the journal is deemed offline, the thread responsible may
still need joining, so a bare return may leak the thread's resources
like its stack.
To address #1, the helper journal_file_is_offlining() is called prior to
accessing f->header->state.
If journal_file_is_offlining() returns true, f->header->state isn't even
checked, because an offlining journal is obviously online, and we'll
just continue with the normal set offline code path.
If journal_file_is_offlining() returns false, then it's safe to check
f->header->state, because the offline_state is beyond the point of
modifying f->header->state, and there's a memory barrier in the helper.
If we find f->header->state is != STATE_ONLINE, then we call the
idempotent journal_file_set_offline_thread_join() on the way out of the
function, to join a potential lingering offline thread.
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