Hi,
I've been seeing a race with python-notmuch, where it will crash due to
pointers being invalidated when threads are used.
I've attached a script which shows the problem some of the time. It's
about the smallest script I can make, but it's hampered by the fact that
making it simpler seems to make the race less likely, so it's hard to
know when it is gone.
The typical backtrace is:
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x00007f7b19c34b59 in talloc_named_const () from
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtalloc.so.2
(gdb) up
#1 0x00007f7b1a5f78dc in notmuch_query_search_threads (query=0x14001c70) at
lib/query.cc:322
322 lib/query.cc: No such file or directory.
in lib/query.cc
(gdb) p *query
Cannot access memory at address 0x14001c70
Where something is invalidating the pointer between creation in
db.create_query() and calling it in query.search_threads()
I've seen other similar things when using other code in the thread.
http://talloc.samba.org/talloc/doc/html/index.html talks about the
thread-safety of talloc, and I don't think it's any of those issues
here.
Any suggestions for how to debug this further would be most welcome.
Thanks,
James
import threading
class NotmuchThread(threading.Thread):
def __init__(self):
super(NotmuchThread, self).__init__()
self.job_waiting = threading.Condition()
self.job_queue = []
def run(self):
from notmuch.database import Database
self.db = Database()
job = None
print "Aquiring lock"
with self.job_waiting:
if len(self.job_queue) < 1:
print "Job queue empty so waiting"
while True:
ready = self.job_waiting.wait(1)
if ready:
break
if len(self.job_queue) > 0:
break
print "Got job, releasing lock"
self.search_threads("tag:inbox")
def search_threads(self, query_string):
query = self.db.create_query(query_string)
print("%X" % query._query)
threads = query.search_threads()
return threads
test_thread = NotmuchThread()
test_thread.start()
with test_thread.job_waiting:
test_thread.job_queue.append()
test_thread.job_waiting.notify()
import time; time.sleep(1)
test_thread.join()
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