Review Request 128113: [kuiserverjobtracker] Fix crash when unregister job

[David Faure]

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Looking at https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128150 (to basically read the libkerfuffle code), I see what the problem is.

You're mixing KJob and QThread, which is only fine if none of the KJob API is called from the secondary thread. I.e. the KJob should only sit on top of the thread and report its progress (e.g. via signals emitted by the thread). This is almost what you're doing, except for this:
     connect(archiveInterface(), &ReadOnlyArchiveInterface::finished, this, &Job::onFinished, Qt::DirectConnection);
Due to the DirectConnection, this will call onFinished, and therefore KJob::emitResult, from the secondary thread. This leads to race conditions inside KJob, and it leads to deletion of the job happening in the wrong thread.
This should definitely not be a direct connection.

This would also fix the race on m_isRunning that your code currently has (read/written in main thread (isRunning() and start()), but set to true in secondary thread in emitResult()).

You should use helgrind (http://www.kdab.com/~dfaure/helgrind.html) on that code to make sure there are no other race conditions.

Conclusion from this analysis: I don't think there's a bug in kjobwidgets, until proven otherwise (preferably with an actual test or unittest that leads to a crash).

- David Faure


On June 10, 2016, 5:07 a.m., Anthony Fieroni wrote:
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> (Updated June 10, 2016, 5:07 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and David Faure.
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> Repository: kjobwidgets
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> Description
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> + Fix memory leak in finished
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> Diffs
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>   src/kuiserverjobtracker.cpp ebed3a5 
>   tests/kjobtrackerstest.cpp 7ef9e07 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128113/diff/
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> Testing
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> ark --changetofirstpath --add --autofilename zip kjobwidgets
> Crash before, fix with patch
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> backtrace
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/06/06/5b87387e-7e7b-4982-b91b-a18f72414509__backtrace
> memcheck
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/06/07/ba4b0150-5e01-4cc1-8776-7530d053d6f0__memcheck
> memcheck 7 errorrs
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/06/07/f8813ccc-8835-4255-842c-29c57c2dea23__memcheck2
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> Thanks,
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> Anthony Fieroni
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