[x264-devel] TSan warns multiple data races

Hongxu Chen leftcopy.chx at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 14:24:11 CET 2019


Hi,

    I checked out with x264-sandbox commit HEAD 1210d2e9. It seems that
ThreadSanitizer still reports similar issues (although I'm not quite sure
whether they are false alarms).

Best Regards,
Hongxu


On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 9:09 PM BugMaster <BugMaster at narod.ru> wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 20:55:41 +0800, Hongxu Chen wrote:
> > Hi x264 developers,
>
>
> >     ThreadSanitizer instrumented x264 binary may warn multiple data
> > races (one of which is also surrounded by a mutex environment) when
> > running "x264 --threads 2 --quiet --output /dev/null test.avi"
> > (relevant files available here
> > https://github.com/ntu-sec/pocs/tree/master/x264-545de2ff/concurrency).
> >     Valgrind Helgrind reports similar issues.
>
>
> >     I also had a summation of the read/write pairs (function
> granularity).
>
>
> > * W thread_sync_context
> >   * R encoder_thread_init
> > * W slices_write (macroblock_cache_load_neighbours,
> > slice_header_write, x264_8_cabac_encode_init_core,
> > x264_8_cabac_encode_init, cabac_putbyte, x264_8_cabac_context_init,
> > x264_8_macroblock_thread_init, mb_analyse_init_qp,
> > macroblock_cache_load_neighbours_deblock, macroblock_cache_load,
> > macroblock_cache_load_neighbours, x264_8_frame_deblock_row,
> > mb_analyse_init, idct_dequant_2x2_dconly)
> >   * R thread_sync_context
> > * W analyse_update_cache
> >   * R x264_8_frame_cond_broadcast
> > * W x264_8_frame_push_unused
> >   * R x264_8_frame_push_unused
> > * W x264_8_frame_copy_picture
> >   * R x264_8_slicetype_analyse
> >   * R macroblock_tree
> > * W x264_8_encoder_encode
> >   * R x264_8_slicetype_analyse
> > * W idct_dequant_2x2_dconly
> >   * R thread_sync_context
> > * W x264_8_adaptive_quant_frame
> >   * R x264_8_weights_analyse
> > * W x264_8_frame_cond_broadcast
> >   * R weighted_reference_duplicate
> >   * R analyse_update_cache
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Hongxu
>
> Hi.
>
> Try with the lastest version from sandbox repo:
> http://git.videolan.org/?p=x264/x264-sandbox.git;a=summary
> There was some fixes there for ThreadSanitizer.
>
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