Re: (ITS#5442) slapd_rq not locked before use bugfix

[ando@sys-net.it]

rein@basefarm.no wrote:

> I was seeing random failures of the test050-syncrepl-multimaster test.  One of
> the failures was that it went into a tight loop traversing a circular runqueue
> it had managed to create in slapd_rq.task_list.  It seems as this was caused by
> missing mutex locks around accesses to slapd_rq, which the patch uploaded to
> ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/slapd_rq_lock.patch fixes.
> 
> Before I applied this patch the test failed after being run a few times, with it
> it has now passed 100 times and is still counting.

locks in back-bdb/config.c should be pointless, as modifications to the 
configuration should only occur while all threads are paused.  The rest 
makes sort of sense, but I'd leave it to Howard.

p.



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