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authorPatrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>2019-11-29 11:06:11 +0100
committerPatrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>2019-11-29 13:08:48 +0100
commit5c6180b5a0e9f9bd1c82938137582720d7a2e6e6 (patch)
treee11803137ebde8a54a44acd9307b56a2dc4e8b8a /src/global.h
parent7f20778ba68d3f2c3fe9f523e24bead57392960d (diff)
downloadlibgit2-5c6180b5a0e9f9bd1c82938137582720d7a2e6e6.tar.gz
global: convert to fiber-local storage to fix exit races
On Windows platforms, we automatically clean up the thread-local storage upon detaching a thread via `DllMain()`. The thing is that this happens for every thread of applications that link against the libgit2 DLL, even those that don't have anything to do with libgit2 itself. As a result, we cannot assume that these unsuspecting threads make use of our `git_libgit2_init()` and `git_libgit2_shutdow()` reference counting, which may lead to racy situations: Thread 1 Thread 2 git_libgit2_shutdown() DllMain(DETACH_THREAD) git__free_tls_data() git_atomic_dec() == 0 git__free_tls_data() TlsFree(_tls_index) TlsGetValue(_tls_index) Due to the second thread never having executed `git_libgit2_init()`, the first thread will clean up TLS data and as a result also free the `_tls_index` variable. When detaching the second thread, we unconditionally access the now-free'd `_tls_index` variable, which is obviously not going to work out well. Fix the issue by converting the code to use fiber-local storage instead of thread-local storage. While FLS will behave the exact same as TLS if no fibers are in use, it does allow us to specify a destructor similar to the one that is accepted by pthread_key_create(3P). Like this, we do not have to manually free indices anymore, but will let the FLS handle calling the destructor. This allows us to get rid of `DllMain()` completely, as we only used it to keep track of when threads were exiting and results in an overall simplification of TLS cleanup.
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diff --git a/src/global.h b/src/global.h
index 3c0559c68..db41dad1f 100644
--- a/src/global.h
+++ b/src/global.h
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ typedef void (*git_global_shutdown_fn)(void);
extern void git__on_shutdown(git_global_shutdown_fn callback);
-extern void git__free_tls_data(void);
-
extern const char *git_libgit2__user_agent(void);
extern const char *git_libgit2__ssl_ciphers(void);