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src: avoid race condition in tracing code
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`json_trace_writer_` is protected by `stream_mutex_`,
but one access to it was not guarded by a lock on said mutex.

Refs: #25512

PR-URL: #25624
Reviewed-By: Denys Otrishko <shishugi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
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addaleax committed Jan 28, 2019
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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions src/tracing/node_trace_writer.cc
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Expand Up @@ -138,8 +138,13 @@ void NodeTraceWriter::FlushPrivate() {

void NodeTraceWriter::Flush(bool blocking) {
Mutex::ScopedLock scoped_lock(request_mutex_);
if (!json_trace_writer_) {
return;
{
// We need to lock the mutexes here in a nested fashion; stream_mutex_
// protects json_trace_writer_, and without request_mutex_ there might be
// a time window in which the stream state changes?
Mutex::ScopedLock stream_mutex_lock(stream_mutex_);
if (!json_trace_writer_)
return;
}
int request_id = ++num_write_requests_;
int err = uv_async_send(&flush_signal_);
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion src/tracing/node_trace_writer.h
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Expand Up @@ -45,9 +45,11 @@ class NodeTraceWriter : public AsyncTraceWriter {
// Triggers callback to close async objects, ending the tracing thread.
uv_async_t exit_signal_;
// Prevents concurrent R/W on state related to serialized trace data
// before it's written to disk, namely stream_ and total_traces_.
// before it's written to disk, namely stream_ and total_traces_
// as well as json_trace_writer_.
Mutex stream_mutex_;
// Prevents concurrent R/W on state related to write requests.
// If both mutexes are locked, request_mutex_ has to be locked first.
Mutex request_mutex_;
// Allows blocking calls to Flush() to wait on a condition for
// trace events to be written to disk.
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