I've run into a threading problem in /j-t-c/native/jk/common/jk_uri_worker_map.c. The problem has been around for a long time, but I believe the changes checked in for version 1.15 on June, 27, 2003 made the problem worse. I have only been able to reproduce the problem on multi-processor machines running under a fairly heavy load. Unfortunately, I don't have a good solution, yet.
The worker map contains a temp pool (jk_uri_worker_map.tp) that is used in the map_uri_to_worker() function. The temp pool is used to store a copy of the incoming URI so that it can be altered to remove any jsessionid and to remove multiple adjacent / characters. The problem is that this single pool is shared by all the worker threads so if multiple threads are executing map_uri_to_worker() simultaneously there is a chance that the pool will get corrupted. This can happen in two ways. The jk_pool code is not thread safe so the internal state of the pool may be corrupted. Second, the map_uri_to_worker() function always calls jk_pool_reset() after mapping the URI. This means that if multiple URIs did get allocated into the pool without corruption, when the first thread finishes it will reset the pool. This may not create a noticeable problem because the memory in the pools isn't overwritten by a reset. If the other threads finish before another thread enters map_uri_to_worker() then nothing will fail. However, if another thread does enter map_uri_to_worker() then its call to jk_pool_strdup() will overwrite some of the previous contents of the pool and really bad things may happen. As I said, I don't have a solution, yet. Any solution would have to be platform independent and also work with all the Web servers that use the JK plugin (e.g. Apache 1.3, Apache 2.0, ISAPI, Netscape, ...). Suggestions? -- Marc --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
