Review Request: Make Sonnet::Speller::setLanguage threadsafe, fixing segfaults in krunner

[David Faure]

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A number of comments on the implementation, but also a more general comment: does it even make sense to use a Speller in multiple threads, and to  change the language from one thread while another one is using the speller for spell-checking? It sounds like, even if a mutex/lock can prevent crashes, this is a weird thing to do anyway, since you have no idea at which point the spell-checking will switch to another language... could happen in the very middle of a sentence...

Maybe it would make more sense to "post" the language change operation to the spell-checking thread using the same mechanism as the one used to "post" spellchecking requests to it? (Disclaimer: I know nothing of the krunner architecture).


kdecore/sonnet/speller.cpp
<http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106242/#comment14723>

    if() before delete is unnecessary, please revert this change.



kdecore/sonnet/speller.cpp
<http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106242/#comment14726>

    That line is racy, if called from two different threads (copying a pointer is not atomic). If anything else, "helgrind" will warn for sure.
    
    Move it inside the lock.



kdecore/sonnet/speller.cpp
<http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106242/#comment14727>

    This line is a no-op, remove it.



kdecore/sonnet/speller.cpp
<http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106242/#comment14729>

    const QString& lang = QString()
    
    (missing const ref, missing spaces)



kdecore/sonnet/speller.cpp
<http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106242/#comment14728>

    coding style: if (lang.isEmpty()) {
    (space after if, space before brace). Same thing on other lines below.



kdecore/sonnet/speller.cpp
<http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106242/#comment14730>

    If setLanguage is called from another thread as the thread using "lang", then this creates a race on "lang".
    Protect it with a mutex.
    
    More generally, it seems that all member variables here need mutex protection, not just dict. So I'd rename dictLock to lock, and use it for all members.



kdecore/sonnet/speller.cpp
<http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106242/#comment14724>

    See above. Delete NULL is perfectly valid (and no-op) in C++.



kdecore/sonnet/speller.cpp
<http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106242/#comment14731>

    spaces around =



kdecore/sonnet/speller.cpp
<http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106242/#comment14725>

    Please use QReadLocker instead. This will simplify the code, no need for the 3-liner return at the end of the method.


- David Faure


On Aug. 27, 2012, 9:33 p.m., Simeon Bird wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 27, 2012, 9:33 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs and Plasma.
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> Description
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> Krunner's spellcheck plugin has been pretty broken since bd291d21f096a714a171e7af3a534ba345ca5659 (about two years ago) because it called Sonnet::Speller::setLanguage every time the spellchecker was invoked, which was (very much) not thread-safe.
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> This patch makes Sonnet::Speller::setLanguage threadsafe by protecting all access to the internal dict pointer using QReadWriteLock. 
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> A related review request is 106244, which adds more fixes to the spellcheck feature.
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> This addresses bugs 264779 and 303831.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264779
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303831
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> Diffs
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>   kdecore/sonnet/speller.cpp b19e74d 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106242/diff/
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> Testing
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> Compiled, installed, used for a week or so, spellchecked a bunch of things.
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> Thanks,
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> Simeon Bird
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