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[PATCH] git grep: be careful to use mutices only when they are initialized

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 25, 2011, 17:25 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.DEB.1.00.1110251223500.32316@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>

Rather nasty things happen when a mutex is not initialized but locked nevertheless. Now, when we're not running in a threaded manner, the mutex is not initialized, which is correct. But then we went and used the mutex anyway, which -- at least on Windows -- leads to a hard crash (ordinarily it would be called a segmentation fault, but in Windows speak it is an access violation).

This problem was identified by our faithful tests when run in the msysGit environment.

To avoid having to wrap the line due to the 80 column limit, we use the name "WHEN_THREADED" instead of "IF_USE_THREADS" because it is one character shorter. Which is all we need in this case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
	I looked around a bit but ran out of time to identify the reason why
	this was not caught earlier.
 builtin/grep.c |    9 +++++----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 92eeada..e94c5fe 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -78,10 +78,11 @@ static pthread_mutex_t grep_mutex;
 /* Used to serialize calls to read_sha1_file. */
 static pthread_mutex_t read_sha1_mutex;
 
-#define grep_lock() pthread_mutex_lock(&grep_mutex)
-#define grep_unlock() pthread_mutex_unlock(&grep_mutex)
-#define read_sha1_lock() pthread_mutex_lock(&read_sha1_mutex)
-#define read_sha1_unlock() pthread_mutex_unlock(&read_sha1_mutex)
+#define WHEN_THREADED(x) do { if (use_threads) (x); } while (0)
+#define grep_lock() WHEN_THREADED(pthread_mutex_lock(&grep_mutex))
+#define grep_unlock() WHEN_THREADED(pthread_mutex_unlock(&grep_mutex))
+#define read_sha1_lock() WHEN_THREADED(pthread_mutex_lock(&read_sha1_mutex))
+#define read_sha1_unlock() WHEN_THREADED(pthread_mutex_unlock(&read_sha1_mutex))
 
 /* Signalled when a new work_item is added to todo. */
 static pthread_cond_t cond_add;
-- 
1.7.5.3.4540.g15f89
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