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Diffstat (limited to 'glusterfsd/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | glusterfsd/src/glusterfsd.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/glusterfsd/src/glusterfsd.c b/glusterfsd/src/glusterfsd.c index 9ee88b6d57b..8d3c71e8988 100644 --- a/glusterfsd/src/glusterfsd.c +++ b/glusterfsd/src/glusterfsd.c @@ -1642,6 +1642,16 @@ cleanup_and_exit(int signum) #endif trav = NULL; + + /* previously we were releasing the cleanup mutex lock before the + process exit. As we are releasing the cleanup mutex lock, before + the process can exit some other thread which is blocked on + cleanup mutex lock is acquiring the cleanup mutex lock and + trying to acquire some resources which are already freed as a + part of cleanup. To avoid this, we are exiting the process without + releasing the cleanup mutex lock. This will not cause any lock + related issues as the process which acquired the lock is going down + */ /* NOTE: Only the least significant 8 bits i.e (signum & 255) will be available to parent process on calling exit() */ exit(abs(signum)); |