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

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Mon Mar 27 20:09:40 CEST 2017


Le maanantaina 27. maaliskuuta 2017, 18.39.21 EEST Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen a 
écrit :
> 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...
> 
> Shall I revert the commit that introduces the deadlock described in
> #17565 until a proper solution is found?

Shall I revert Lua extensions support until the original developer and the 
committer that vouched for him actually make true on their promise and fix the 
code?

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