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(Updated Dec. 18, 2013, 8:20 p.m.)
Review request for Asterisk Developers, Joshua Colp, Jonathan Rose, Matt
Jordan, and rmudgett.
Changes
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Addressed review feedback.
Bugs: ASTERISK-22936
https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-22936
Repository: Asterisk
Description
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This is more-or-less a take 2 of https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3042
Initially, it was discovered that performing an attended transfer of a
multiparty bridge with a PJSIP channel would cause a deadlock. A PBX thread
started a masquerade and reached the point where it was calling the fixup()
callback on the "original" channel. For chan_pjsip, this involves pushing a
synchronous task to the session's serializer. The problem was that a task ahead
of the fixup task was also attempting to perform a channel masquerade. However,
since masquerades are designed in a way to only allow for one to occur at a
time, the task ahead of the fixup could not continue until the masquerade
already in progress had completed. And of course, the masquerade in progress
could not complete until the task ahead of the fixup task had completed.
Deadlock.
The initial fix was to change the fixup task to be asynchronous. While this
prevented the deadlock from occurring, it had the frightful side effect of
potentially allowing for tasks in the session's serializer to operate on a
zombie channel.
Taking a step back from this particular deadlock, it became clear that the
problem was not really this one particular issue but that masquerades
themselves needed to be addressed. A PJSIP attended transfer operation calls
ast_channel_move(), which attempts to both set up and execute a masquerade. The
problem was that after it had set up the masquerade, the PBX thread had swooped
in and tried to actually perform the masquerade. Looking at changes that had
been made to Asterisk 12, it became clear that there never is any time now that
anyone ever wants to set up a masquerade and allow for the channel thread to
actually perform the masquerade. Everyone always is calling ast_channel_move(),
performs the masquerade itself before returning.
In this patch, I have removed all blocks of code from channel.c that will
attempt to perform a masquerade if ast_channel_masq() returns true. Now, there
is no distinction between setting up a masquerade and performing the
masquerade. It is one operation. The only remaining checks for
ast_channel_masq() and ast_channel_masqr() are in ast_hangup() since we do not
want to interrupt a masquerade by hanging up the channel. Instead, now
ast_hangup() will wait for a masquerade to complete before moving forward with
its operation.
The ast_channel_move() function has been modified to basically in-line the
logic that used to be in ast_channel_masquerade(). ast_channel_masquerade() has
been killed off for real. ast_channel_move() now has a lock associated with it
that is used to prevent any simultaneous moves from occurring at once. This
means there is no need to make sure that ast_channel_masq() or
ast_channel_masqr() are already set on a channel when ast_channel_move() is
called. It also means the channel container lock is not pulling double duty by
both keeping the container locked and preventing multiple masquerades from
occurring simultaneously.
The ast_do_masquerade() function has been renamed to do_channel_masquerade()
and is now internal to channel.c. The function now takes explicit arguments of
which channels are involved in the masquerade instead of a single channel.
While it probably is possible to do some further refactoring of this method, I
feel that I would be treading dangerously. Instead, all I did was change some
comments that no longer are true after this changeset.
The other more minor change introduced in this patch is to res_pjsip.c to make
ast_sip_push_task_synchronous() run the task in-place if we are already a SIP
servant thread. This is related to this patch because even when we isolate the
channel masquerade to only running in the SIP servant thread, we would still
deadlock when the fixup() callback is reached since we would essentially be
waiting forever for ourselves to finish before actually running the fixup. This
makes it so the fixup is run without having to push a task into a serializer at
all.
Diffs (updated)
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/branches/12/res/res_pjsip.c 403778
/branches/12/main/channel.c 403778
/branches/12/include/asterisk/channel.h 403778
/branches/12/include/asterisk/autochan.h 403778
Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3069/diff/
Testing
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Jonathan ran the same test he had originally run in order to make the deadlock
occur, and with this patch it no longer occurs. I also ran a bevy of testsuite
tests to see if there were any that did not pass with this patch but did pass
without the patch. I found none on my machine, though I'll admit I did not run
every test.
Thanks,
Mark Michelson
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