bug#59055: [PATCH] Fix possible deadlock.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca> skribis:

> If we got interrupted while waiting on our condition variable, we unlock
> the kernel mutex momentarily while executing asynchronous operations
> before putting us back into the waiting queue.
>
> However, we have to retry acquiring the mutex before getting back into
> the queue, otherwise it's possible that we wait indefinitely since
> nobody could be the owner for a while.
>
> * libguile/threads.c (lock_mutex): Try acquring the mutex after signal
> interruption.

Looks reasonable to me; applied.

Did you try to come up with a reproducer?  That would be awesome but I
guess it’s hard because you need to trigger EINTR at the right point.

Thanks,
Ludo’.