[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: desktop/source

Stephan Bergmann sbergman at redhat.com
Tue Oct 24 15:38:21 UTC 2017


 desktop/source/app/officeipcthread.cxx |   69 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit 38081c0884b64ed1132047973b4dccc42d548c89
Author: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman at redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 24 17:25:47 2017 +0200

    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

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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