changeset 6517:657e029bac28

Thread pools: memory barriers in task completion notifications. The ngx_thread_pool_done object isn't volatile, and at least some compilers assume that it is permitted to reorder modifications of volatile and non-volatile objects. Added appropriate ngx_memory_barrier() calls to make sure all modifications will happen before the lock is released. Reported by Mindaugas Rasiukevicius, http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2016-April/008160.html.
author Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru>
date Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:18:28 +0300
parents ab16126a06a0
children 7760b54d5458
files src/core/ngx_thread_pool.c
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/src/core/ngx_thread_pool.c
+++ b/src/core/ngx_thread_pool.c
@@ -345,6 +345,8 @@ ngx_thread_pool_cycle(void *data)
         *ngx_thread_pool_done.last = task;
         ngx_thread_pool_done.last = &task->next;
 
+        ngx_memory_barrier();
+
         ngx_unlock(&ngx_thread_pool_done_lock);
 
         (void) ngx_notify(ngx_thread_pool_handler);
@@ -366,6 +368,8 @@ ngx_thread_pool_handler(ngx_event_t *ev)
     ngx_thread_pool_done.first = NULL;
     ngx_thread_pool_done.last = &ngx_thread_pool_done.first;
 
+    ngx_memory_barrier();
+
     ngx_unlock(&ngx_thread_pool_done_lock);
 
     while (task) {