On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 09:36:59AM +0000, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 23:31 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> > commit a839e39e ("libmpathpersist: factor out initialization and
> > teardown") made mpath_presistent_reserve_{in,out} use share variables
> > for curmp and pathvec. There are users of this library that call
> > these
> > functions in a multi-threaded process, and this change causes their
> > application to crash. config and udev are also shared variables, but
> > libmpathpersist doesn't write to the config in
> > mpath_presistent_reserve_{in,out}, and looking into the libudev code,
> > I
> > don't see any place where libmpathpersist uses the udev object in a
> > way
> > that isn't thread-safe.
> >
> > This patch makes mpath_presistent_reserve_{in,out} go back to using
> > local variables for curmp and pathvec, so that multiple threads won't
> > be operating on these variables at the same time.
>
> Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Out of curiosity: what's the multi-threaded application?
Dunno. I just got the bug report saying that their multithreaded
application is crashing.
-Ben
>
> Regards,
> Martin
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