[lldb-dev] Windows crash after D9056

Zachary Turner zturner at google.com
Thu May 21 10:28:58 PDT 2015


Why does someone other than the LockFile object care about holding a raw
handle? Shouldn't it just hold a reference/pointer to the LockFile?
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:06 AM Oleksiy Vyalov <ovyalov at google.com> wrote:

> Windows file lock is tied to a file handle - using handle duplication
> effectively applies locking on duplicated handle, not on original, so your
> original handle will be blocked on IO trying to read/write.
> Maybe we can just eliminate CloseHandle call (
> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/lldb/blob/master/source/Host/windows/LockFileWindows.cpp#L50)
> if file will be eventually closed by LockFileWindows caller.
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't experience this crash but looking at the proposed fix it
>> certainly seems like a plausible explanation. Seems to me like something
>> should transfer ownership though rather than duplicating the handle
>>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:52 AM Colin Riley <colin at codeplay.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Windows 7 64, Debug, latest vs13.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21/05/2015 17:39, Oleksiy Vyalov wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Colin,
>>>
>>>  could you give more context about crash - what build configuration do
>>> you use (debug, release,..) and which OS?
>>> I'm running this code on Windows 7 and haven't noticed any failures.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Colin Riley <colin at codeplay.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Zachary, do you see this on windows at all? Tip for us results in
>>>> crashes when releasing file descriptors without the below fix.
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 19/05/2015 12:52, Aidan Dodds wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We have been seeing a crash on windows when connecting to an android
>>>> target using lldb-server.
>>>> I am not sure if this affects other platforms too.
>>>> I think this was introduced with http://reviews.llvm.org/D9056.
>>>>
>>>> I tracked the crash back to the workings of ModuleCache::GetAndPut().
>>>>
>>>> The crash seems to be due to a file descriptor being released twice,
>>>> once by the original "File lock_file" and again by the "LockFile lock" who
>>>> share the same file descriptor.
>>>>
>>>> The file descriptor sharing happens because of this line:
>>>> ModuleCache.cpp @ 164
>>>> LockFile lock (lock_file.GetDescriptor ());
>>>>
>>>> Both destructors attempt to release effectively the same file
>>>> descriptor.  I was able to fix the crash by duplicating the file handle in
>>>> the lock file constructor using _dup().  (patch attached)
>>>> I wasn't sure if this was the right fix however. Has anyone else seen
>>>> this?
>>>> Should "File lock_file" perhaps transfer its file descriptor completely
>>>> rather then share it?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Aidan
>>>>
>>>>
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