Busy loop in the wl_priv_signal_final_emit

Matteo Valdina matteo.valdina at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 21:46:12 UTC 2018


Hi,
I'm moving my compositor to latest libweston 5.0 /wayland 1.16 library and
I noticed a regression when I terminate my compositor.

The compositor will never exit because is stuck in a busy loop.
The busy loop is in the "wl_priv_signal_final_emit" that was added in the
latest wayland.

And precisely is looping to notify that the same client is disconnected.
With this code (from here:
https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland/blame/bb1a8ca91e7d99f54b43ece01674ccbd720ec4bd/src/wayland-server.c#L2057
)

while (!wl_list_empty(&signal->listener_list)) {
  pos = signal->listener_list.next;
   l = wl_container_of(pos, l, link);
   wl_list_remove(pos);
   wl_list_init(pos);
  l->notify(l, data);
}

The listener_list is pointing to itself

$3 = {listener_list = {prev = 0x24f7eb0, next = 0x24f7eb0}, emit_list =
{prev = 0x298f888, next = 0x298f888}}
But to be empty next should point to &listener_list that it is
p &$3->listener_list
$11 = (struct wl_list *) 0x298f878


A more expert eye on this codebase can confirm that there is no issue on
how the wl_list_remove is done in wl_priv_signal_final_emit?

Best
Matteo Valdina

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