[Date Prev][Date Next] [Chronological] [Thread] [Top]

Potential deadlock in back-monitor cache



We are working on a project that could relieve from programmer
the burden of reasoning about deadlocks, races etc.
Our study of the latest OpenLDAP source code shows the following
susceptible to deadlock.

- monitor_cache_get at servers/slapd/back-monitor/cache.c:163
  waiting for mp_mutex while holding mi_cache_mutex

- monitor_cache_release at servers/slapd/back-monitor/cache.c:366
  waiting for mi_cache_mutex while holding mp_mutex

We have not verified this in production run, which could
be difficult. Any comment would be greatly appreciated.

Yin Wang