Fix: get_wait_shm() ust mutex deadlock
authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:01:14 +0000 (12:01 -0400)
committerMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:01:14 +0000 (12:01 -0400)
commitb0c1425d1dbdd356172125a2dde4af4602a17326
treed52cd7e501df547b5834bf50652adf993e447888
parent26329f266af91824651fe32df3003c45c71985b8
Fix: get_wait_shm() ust mutex deadlock

The main issue is that get_wait_shm() bypass the fork() wrapper (with
lttng_ust_nest_count), which is responsible for holding the UST mutex
across fork(). Therefore, when exiting the context of the child process,
we execute the destructor, which try to grab the UST mutex, which might
be in pretty much any state.

Given that we don't want this process to try to register to
lttng-sessiond (because this is internal to lttng-ust), we might want to
let it skip the destructor execution. This would actually be the easiest
way out.

Reported-by: changz <zheng.chang@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
liblttng-ust/lttng-ust-comm.c
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