[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] lua: Fix deadlock when deactivating extension due to timeout.

Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen hugo at beauzee.fr
Mon Mar 27 18:39:21 CEST 2017


On Mon, Mar 27, 2017, at 06:37 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le maanantaina 27. maaliskuuta 2017, 18.36.12 EEST Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen a 
> écrit :
> > Calling lua_ExtensionDeactivate with the command lock held *will*
> > deadlock. I can agree that fiddling with the lua_State without any kind
> > of lock held seems dangerous, but that seems to be a different problem.
> 
> It is a different problem because it is a bug introduced in this patch...
> 
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Shall I revert the commit that introduces the deadlock described in
#17565 until a proper solution is found?

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  Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen
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