[tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH] memtx: cancel checkpoint thread at exit

[Konstantin Osipov <kostja@tarantool.org>]

* Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> [19/04/18 20:19]:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 06:46:54PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> > +static void
> > +checkpoint_cancel(struct checkpoint *ckpt)
> > +{
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Cancel the checkpoint thread if it's running and wait
> > +	 * for it to terminate so as to eliminate the possibility
> > +	 * of use-after-free.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (ckpt->cord.id != 0 &&
> > +	    tt_pthread_cancel(ckpt->cord.id) != ESRCH)
> > +		tt_pthread_join(ckpt->cord.id, NULL);
> > +	checkpoint_delete(ckpt);
> > +}
> 
> Oops, turned out this check isn't quite correct as we don't reset
> cord.id after joining the thread. As a result, we might call
> pthread_cancel on an already joined thread, which leads to a crash
> (caught by Travis CI):

I would reset cord.id instead.

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