Fix for bug #50913 "Deadlock between open_and_lock_tables_derived

and MDL".

Concurrent execution of a multi-DELETE statement and ALTER
TABLE statement which affected one of the tables used in
the multi-DELETE sometimes led to deadlock.
Similar deadlocks might have occured when one performed
INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE on a view and concurrently executed
ALTER TABLE for the view's underlying table, or when one
concurrently executed TRUNCATE TABLE for InnoDB table and
ALTER TABLE for the same table.

These deadlocks were caused by a discrepancy between types of
metadata and thr_lock.cc locks acquired by those statements.

What happened was that multi-DELETE/TRUNCATE/DML-through-the-
view statement in the first connection acquired SR lock on a
table, then ALTER TABLE would come in in the second connection
and acquire SNW metadata lock and TL_WRITE_ALLOW_READ
thr_lock.c lock and then would start waiting for the first
connection during lock upgrade. After that the statement in
the first connection would try to acquire TL_WRITE lock on
table and would start waiting for the second connection,
creating a deadlock.

This patch solves this problem by ensuring that we acquire
SW metadata lock in all cases in which we acquiring write
thr_lock.c lock. This guarantees that deadlocks like the
one described above won't occur since all lock conflicts
in such situation are resolved within MDL subsystem.

This patch also adds assert which should guarantee that
such situations won't arise in future.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sql/sql_handler.cc b/sql/sql_handler.cc
index d9c2a84d03e..9f365d0cf2f 100644
--- a/sql/sql_handler.cc
+++ b/sql/sql_handler.cc
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ static void mysql_ha_close_table(THD *thd, TABLE_LIST *tables)
   {
     /* Non temporary table. */
     tables->table->file->ha_index_or_rnd_end();
+    tables->table->open_by_handler= 0;
     mysql_mutex_lock(&LOCK_open);
     if (close_thread_table(thd, &tables->table))
     {
@@ -332,7 +333,8 @@ bool mysql_ha_open(THD *thd, TABLE_LIST *tables, bool reopen)
               hash_tables->table->s->tmp_table);
   /*
     If it's a temp table, don't reset table->query_id as the table is
-    being used by this handler. Otherwise, no meaning at all.
+    being used by this handler. For non-temp tables we use this flag
+    in asserts.
   */
   hash_tables->table->open_by_handler= 1;