[SCM] Samba Shared Repository - branch v3-2-test updated - release-3-2-0pre2-2388-ga0e1d8a

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue May 20 21:22:07 GMT 2008


Karolin, please pull these into 3.2-stable for the RC.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 04:20:00PM -0500, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> The branch, v3-2-test has been updated
>        via  a0e1d8ac4dd9121312fd66ecb2e2942513df5a4b (commit)
>        via  fd0b60a9e000f969cf99a8d670080cc7a52d97d8 (commit)
>       from  47eb2e8fa858d9f12637eb9a10466271335f61aa (commit)
> 
> http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=shortlog;h=v3-2-test
> 
> 
> - Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
> commit a0e1d8ac4dd9121312fd66ecb2e2942513df5a4b
> Author: Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
> Date:   Tue May 20 14:18:58 2008 -0700
> 
>     Convert in_transaction to a bool. Add the same fix Volker
>     used for tdb_traverse() to tdb_traverse_read().
>     Jeremy.
> 
> commit fd0b60a9e000f969cf99a8d670080cc7a52d97d8
> Author: Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
> Date:   Tue May 20 21:54:36 2008 +0200
> 
>     Fix nesting tdb_traverse in a transaction
>     
>     Calling tdb_traverse inside a transaction led to the transaction lock being
>     held indefinitely. This was caused by the tdb_transaction_lock/unlock inside
>     tdb_traverse: The transaction code holds the global lock at offset
>     TRANSACTION_LOCK. The call to tdb_transaction_lock does nothing because the
>     transaction_lock is already being held. tdb_transaction_unlock inside tdb_wrap
>     resets tdb->have_transaction_lock but does not release the kernel-level fcntl
>     lock. transaction_commit later on does not release that fcntl lock either,
>     because tdb->have_transaction_lock was already reset by tdb_transaction().
>     
>     This patch does fix that problem for me. An alternative would be to make
>     tdb->have_transaction_lock a counter that can cope with proper nesting, maybe
>     in other places as well.
>     
>     Volker
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------


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