[asterisk-dev] [Code Review]: Fix deadlock between subscription event RWLOCK and dialogs container lock in chan_sip.

[schmidts]

> On Nov. 3, 2011, 10:47 a.m., rmudgett wrote:
> > /branches/1.8/channels/chan_sip.c, lines 16690-16701
> > <https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1557/diff/2/?file=21580#file21580line16690>
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> >     These tests seem to be redundant with the same tests later in the function.  They also prevent the check_rtp_timeout() call from checking for timeouts which is likely a bug anyway.

ok. i just wasnt sure about this. thanks for checking this out.


- schmidts


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On Nov. 2, 2011, 8:25 p.m., rmudgett wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 2, 2011, 8:25 p.m.)
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> Review request for Asterisk Developers and David Vossel.
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> Summary
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> Timing between dialog destruction and a MWI event sending a message could result in a deadlock.
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> Order of events causing deadlock:
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> 1a) The event subscription system calls the registered callbacks with its list RWLOCK held.
> 1b) The SIP monitor checks for dialogs needing destruction.  It does an ao2_callback that holds the dialogs container lock while searching for dialogs to destroy.
> 2a) The event subscription SIP callback needs to create a temporary dialog to send out the MWI notification.  That temporary dialog needs to be inserted in the dialogs container so it must wait.
> 2b) The dialog search finds a dialog to destroy and as a result releases the last reference for a peer.  The peer destructor attempts to get the subscription RWLOCK but must wait.
> 3) deadlock
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> This addresses bug ASTERISK-18747.
>     https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-18747
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> Diffs
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>   /branches/1.8/channels/chan_sip.c 343275 
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> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1557/diff
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> Testing
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> It compiles. :)
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> Thanks,
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> rmudgett
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