[jira] [Updated] (ZOOKEEPER-3162) Broken lock semantics in C client lock-recipe

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ASF GitHub Bot updated ZOOKEEPER-3162:
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> Broken lock semantics in C client lock-recipe
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>                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-3162
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-3162
>             Project: ZooKeeper
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: c client
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 3.4.13
>            Reporter: Andrea Reale
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: pull-request-available
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> As reported (but never fixed) in the past by ZOOKEEPER-2409, ZOOKEEPER-2038 and (partly) ZOOKEEPER-2878, the C client lock-recipe implementation is broken.
> I identified three issues.
> The main one (as also reported in the aforementioned reports) is that the logic that goes through the lock waiting list is broken. child_floor uses strcmp and compares the full node name (i.e., sessionID-sequence) rather than only comparing the sequence number. This makes it possible for two different clients to hold the lock at the same time: assume two clients, one associated with session A, the other with session B, with A < B lexicographically. Now assume that at some point a thread in B holds a lock and a thread in A tries to acquire the same lock. A will manage to get the lock because of the wrong comparison function, so now two guys hold the lock.
> The second issue is a possible deadlock inside zkr_lock_operation. zkr_lock_operation is always called by holding the mutex associated to the client lock. In some cases, zkr_lock_operaton may decide to give-up locking and call zkr_lock_unlock to release the lock. When this happens, it will try to acquire again the same phtread mutex, which will lead to a deadlock.
> The third issue relates to the return value of zkr_lock_lock. According to the API docs, the functions returns 0 when no errors. Then it is up to the invoker to check when the lock is held by calling zkr_lock_isowner. However, the implementation, in case of no error, returns zkr_lock_isowner. This is wrong because it becomes impossible to distinguish an error condition from a success (but not ownerhsip). Instead the API (as described in the docs, btw) should return always 0 when no errors occur.
> Shortly I will add the link to a PR fixing the issues.
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