[ovs-dev] Clang compilation broken on master (ecd4a8f)

William Tu u9012063 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 23 19:47:38 UTC 2020


On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:32 PM Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:23:10PM -0700, William Tu wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:55 AM William Tu <u9012063 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:33 AM Dave Tucker <datucker at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all!
> > > >
> > > > Current master branch is failing to compile under clang.
> > > > The problem was introduced in this commit (applied 4 hours ago).
> > > > https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/ecd4a8fcdff2ebf35cdb36355167d34e99df6dd5
> > > >
> > > > lib/vlog.c:618:12: error: reading variable 'log_fd' requires holding mutex
> > > > 'log_file_mutex' [-Werror,-Wthread-safety-analysis]
> > > > return log_fd;
> > > > ^
> > > >
> > > > Based on the error I'd suggest reverting the patch and reworking it to
> > > > safely acquire/release log_file_mutex.
> > > >
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > I'm thinking about how to skip this lock(log_file_mutex), since this is already
> > in SIGSEGV signal handling and afterward it coredump.
>
> You can mark vlog_get_fd() as OVS_REQUIRES(log_file_mutex) and then the
> caller OVS_NO_THREAD_SAFETY_ANALYSIS.

Hi Dave and Ben,
Thanks! It works ok now.
Should I submit a revert and a new one with this fix?
or just submit a patch to fix it?
Regards,
William


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