tevent_loop_wait() never finishes

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Wed Jul 31 03:33:40 MDT 2013


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 02:52:05PM +0200, Pavel Březina wrote:
> Hi,
> I've run across a problem where I don't have any custom event
> handlers registered with tevent, but the program gets stuck in
> tevent_loop_wait().

Does the attached (untested!) patch fix it?

Volker

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From d3500a4e1e683fc6071c5cf7560deaeda71763f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:31:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tevent: Remove the signal pipe if no signal events are
 around

It makes adding/removing the first/last sigevents a bit more expensive, but it
will fix tevent_loop_wait not finishing when one signal event was added and
removed.
---
 lib/tevent/tevent_signal.c |   20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/tevent/tevent_signal.c b/lib/tevent/tevent_signal.c
index 0fdf646..23bcdf7 100644
--- a/lib/tevent/tevent_signal.c
+++ b/lib/tevent/tevent_signal.c
@@ -175,7 +175,25 @@ static int tevent_signal_destructor(struct tevent_signal *se)
 			     struct tevent_common_signal_list);
 
 	if (se->event_ctx) {
-		DLIST_REMOVE(se->event_ctx->signal_events, se);
+		struct tevent_context *ev = se->event_ctx;
+
+		DLIST_REMOVE(ev->signal_events, se);
+
+		if (ev->signal_events == NULL) {
+			/*
+			 * This was the last signal. Destroy the pipe.
+			 */
+			TALLOC_FREE(ev->pipe_fde);
+
+			if (ev->pipe_fds[0] != -1) {
+				close(ev->pipe_fds[0]);
+				ev->pipe_fds[0] = -1;
+			}
+			if (ev->pipe_fds[1] != -1) {
+				close(ev->pipe_fds[1]);
+				ev->pipe_fds[1] = -1;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	talloc_free(sl);
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1.7.9.5



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