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authorStephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>2017-10-24 17:25:47 +0200
committerStephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>2017-10-24 17:25:47 +0200
commit38081c0884b64ed1132047973b4dccc42d548c89 (patch)
tree22e44b02a0055c3b4553cc8378856f90563f5771 /desktop
parentd40b0b46ae229cb3b5b375b0e86b4bc19d48e839 (diff)
Avoid race between DbusIpcThread::close and DbusIpcThread::execute
...that caused Flatpak'ed LO to sometimes not terminate properly after 243d743dae127fe11ecd7f807121da8815af8f01 "solenv/flatpak-manifest.in: incorporate upstream sandboxing improvements" had removed --socket=session-bus and thus introduced flatpak-dbus-proxy into the mix: > Oct 24 15:25:16 <sberg_> I'm not sure who's at fault there; on the LO side I > have a thread processing incoming dbus requests (DbusIpcThread::execute, > <https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/desktop/source/app/officeipcthread.cxx#552>); > that thread is typically waiting within dbus_connection_read_write_dispatch > for new messages; if LO wants to close, it needs to get that thread out of > dbus_connection_read_write_dispatch, and the only way I found back then is > what's in DbusIpcThread::close (just following DbusIpcThread::execute), with > a big "this apparently needs a more DBus-y design anyway" testament to my > cluelesness re dbus; it calls dbus_bus_get_private to connect to itself, and > send a Close message that'll cause DbusIpcThread::execute to fall out of the > loop; the dbus_bus_get_private leads to a flatpak_proxy_incoming in the > proxy, which returns TRUE, and after that I see no further activity in the > proxy (but not sure what functions I should all put breakpoints on), and the > LO side is hung in dbus_bus_release_name a few lines futher down > Oct 24 15:26:20 <alexlarsson> sberg_: i ran this: > https://github.com/sgh/dbus-examples/blob/master/dbus-signal.c > Oct 24 15:26:27 <alexlarsson> sberg_: which calls dbus_bus_release_name > Oct 24 15:26:30 <alexlarsson> and it seems to work for me > Oct 24 15:26:39 <alexlarsson> If i --own-name=org.DBusTest.SignalTest > Oct 24 15:27:50 <sberg_> so maybe it's related to my unorthodox way of trying > to quit the dbus loop there; if anybody with a clue about dbus would be > willing to help me with the above, I'd be very grateful :) > Oct 24 15:28:06 <alexlarsson> I don't see how the proxy should affect it tho > Oct 24 15:28:11 <alexlarsson> other than maybe timing? > Oct 24 15:29:06 <sberg_> maybe; I think I've seen things actually succeed once > when I stepped through the proxy somewhat manually > Oct 24 15:31:01 <alexlarsson> sberg_: eeeentresting > Oct 24 15:31:07 <alexlarsson> sberg_: so, it does an own-call > Oct 24 15:31:13 <alexlarsson> sberg_: maybe that is what breaks? > Oct 24 15:31:33 <sberg_> yeah, that's my dumb speculation > Oct 24 15:34:38 <alexlarsson> So, you send the close from another thread, not > waiting for the reply > Oct 24 15:34:56 <alexlarsson> then you start working on the main connection > immediately > Oct 24 15:35:02 <alexlarsson> shouldn > Oct 24 15:35:25 <alexlarsson> shouldn't you grab the mutex after that? > Oct 24 15:36:35 <alexlarsson> This whole thing smells racy > Oct 24 15:38:18 <alexlarsson> My guess is that with regular dbus, the flush > call will schedule dbus daemon which sends back the message, waking up the > other thread before continuing > Oct 24 15:38:22 <sberg_> alexlarsson, ah, yeah, I see; apparently didn't > occur to me back then that I mustn't call dbus_bus_release_name when the > execute loop may still be busy > Oct 24 15:38:25 <alexlarsson> But now you have two context switches > Oct 24 15:38:37 <alexlarsson> so we continue before we get the reply > Oct 24 15:38:44 <alexlarsson> eh, not reply > Oct 24 15:38:46 <alexlarsson> the close message > Oct 24 15:38:52 <alexlarsson> and then you race > Oct 24 15:39:11 <alexlarsson> Honestly i don't remember the exact rules for > dbus threadedness > Oct 24 15:39:58 <sberg_> ...so looks like something that can be corrected on > the LO side after all; I'll give it a try > Oct 24 15:40:17 <alexlarsson> you're calling dbus_threads_init_default(), so > it should be nominally threadsafe > Oct 24 15:40:29 <alexlarsson> still, I imagine it can still deadlock > Oct 24 15:43:12 <alexlarsson> sberg_: i still don't see the exact deadlock > though > Oct 24 15:43:32 <alexlarsson> i imagine working on the separate private > connection is threadsafe > Oct 24 15:43:35 <alexlarsson> and we flush that > Oct 24 15:44:08 <alexlarsson> then we call dbus_bus_release_name, which i > imagine would block if the dbus thread is in read_write_dispatch > Oct 24 15:44:35 <alexlarsson> The question is, why is the close message not > delivered? > Oct 24 15:44:44 <alexlarsson> I mean, we flushed it... > Oct 24 15:45:48 <alexlarsson> sberg_: oh, i think i know > Oct 24 15:45:53 <alexlarsson> sberg_: release_name probably sent some message, > but then the other thread pop:ed the reply > Oct 24 15:46:04 <alexlarsson> sberg_: queue very long wait > Oct 24 15:51:53 <sberg_> alexlarsson, yeah, sounds plausible; thanks! > Oct 24 15:52:14 <sberg_> (now that I want to reproduce it, closing succeeds > cleanly every time I try, of course...) > Oct 24 15:54:48 <alexlarsson> sberg_: obviously > Oct 24 15:55:30 <alexlarsson> sberg_: that just makes the race theory more > valid tho > Oct 24 15:57:31 <sberg_> alexlarsson, yup, after stopping the unrelated > background LO build that had put the machine under full load, I see it hang > again in release_name, while the execute loop is still happily running too; > that nicely confirms your theory > Oct 24 15:58:28 <alexlarsson> sberg_: alternatively you could tell your users > to always build LO in the background > Oct 24 15:59:04 <sberg_> I'll try to put that into the release notes; lets > see... Change-Id: I2a8a58f9259d2854f42f4aa3db5bb232cf70845d
Diffstat (limited to 'desktop')
-rw-r--r--desktop/source/app/officeipcthread.cxx69
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/desktop/source/app/officeipcthread.cxx b/desktop/source/app/officeipcthread.cxx
index bb597e665ff0..b2380c0f9c43 100644
--- a/desktop/source/app/officeipcthread.cxx
+++ b/desktop/source/app/officeipcthread.cxx
@@ -612,43 +612,8 @@ void DbusIpcThread::execute()
}
dbus_connection_flush(connection_.connection);
}
-}
-
-void DbusIpcThread::close() {
- assert(connection_.connection != nullptr);
DBusError e;
dbus_error_init(&e);
- {
- // Let DbusIpcThread::execute return from dbus_connection_read_write;
- // for now, just abort on failure (the process would otherwise block,
- // with DbusIpcThread::execute hanging in dbus_connection_read_write);
- // this apparently needs a more DBus-y design anyway:
- DbusConnectionHolder con(dbus_bus_get_private(DBUS_BUS_SESSION, &e));
- assert((con.connection == nullptr) == bool(dbus_error_is_set(&e)));
- if (con.connection == nullptr) {
- SAL_WARN(
- "desktop.app",
- "dbus_bus_get_private failed with: " << e.name << ": "
- << e.message);
- dbus_error_free(&e);
- std::abort();
- }
- DbusMessageHolder msg(
- dbus_message_new_method_call(
- "org.libreoffice.LibreOfficeIpc0",
- "/org/libreoffice/LibreOfficeIpc0",
- "org.libreoffice.LibreOfficeIpcIfc0", "Close"));
- if (msg.message == nullptr) {
- SAL_WARN("desktop.app", "dbus_message_new_method_call failed");
- std::abort();
- }
- if (!dbus_connection_send(con.connection, msg.message, nullptr))
- {
- SAL_WARN("desktop.app", "dbus_connection_send failed");
- std::abort();
- }
- dbus_connection_flush(con.connection);
- }
int n = dbus_bus_release_name(
connection_.connection, "org.libreoffice.LibreOfficeIpc0", &e);
assert((n == -1) == bool(dbus_error_is_set(&e)));
@@ -673,6 +638,40 @@ void DbusIpcThread::close() {
}
}
+void DbusIpcThread::close() {
+ assert(connection_.connection != nullptr);
+ DBusError e;
+ dbus_error_init(&e);
+ // Let DbusIpcThread::execute return from dbus_connection_read_write; for
+ // now, just abort on failure (the process would otherwise block, with
+ // DbusIpcThread::execute hanging in dbus_connection_read_write); this
+ // apparently needs a more DBus-y design anyway:
+ DbusConnectionHolder con(dbus_bus_get_private(DBUS_BUS_SESSION, &e));
+ assert((con.connection == nullptr) == bool(dbus_error_is_set(&e)));
+ if (con.connection == nullptr) {
+ SAL_WARN(
+ "desktop.app",
+ "dbus_bus_get_private failed with: " << e.name << ": "
+ << e.message);
+ dbus_error_free(&e);
+ std::abort();
+ }
+ DbusMessageHolder msg(
+ dbus_message_new_method_call(
+ "org.libreoffice.LibreOfficeIpc0",
+ "/org/libreoffice/LibreOfficeIpc0",
+ "org.libreoffice.LibreOfficeIpcIfc0", "Close"));
+ if (msg.message == nullptr) {
+ SAL_WARN("desktop.app", "dbus_message_new_method_call failed");
+ std::abort();
+ }
+ if (!dbus_connection_send(con.connection, msg.message, nullptr)) {
+ SAL_WARN("desktop.app", "dbus_connection_send failed");
+ std::abort();
+ }
+ dbus_connection_flush(con.connection);
+}
+
#endif
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