[ruby-core:65954] [ruby-trunk - Bug #10443] Forking with contended mutex held can lead to deadlock in child process upon unlock

Issue #10443 has been updated by Eric Wong.


 Thanks for the test case, I can reproduce it easily.
 Hopefully I can fix it soon.

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Bug #10443: Forking with contended mutex held can lead to deadlock in child process upon unlock
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10443#change-49689

* Author: Ben Weintraub
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.1.3p242 (2014-09-19 revision 47630) [x86_64-darwin13.0]
* Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN
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If a Ruby thread calls Process.fork while holding a Mutex (for example, within a Mutex#synchronize block) that is also concurrently being contended for by a background thread, the thread in the child process will occasionally be unable to unlock the mutex it was holding at the time of the fork, and will hang under rb_mutex_unlock_th when attempting to acquire mutex->lock.

I've been able to reproduce this on Ruby 2.1.1 - 2.1.3 and 2.2.0-preview1 (haven't tried elsewhere yet).

The attached test case demonstrates the issue, although it can take up to 20 minutes to hit a reproducing case. The test case will print one '.' each time it forks. Once it stops printing dots, it has hit this bug (the parent process is stuck in a call to Process.wait, and the child is stuck in rb_mutex_unlock_th).

The test case consists of a global lock that is contended for by 10 background threads, in addition to the main thread, which acquires it, forks, and then releases it.

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rb-mutex-unlock-fork-test.rb (372 Bytes)
rb-mutex-unlock-fork-test.rb (339 Bytes)


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