Bug #40899 Mutex not unlocked in ndb_util_thread_func
Submitted: 20 Nov 2008 19:16 Modified: 28 Jan 2009 17:33
Reporter: Marc ALFF Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Cluster: Cluster (NDB) storage engine Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:mysql-5.1 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: 5.1 and up

[20 Nov 2008 19:16] Marc ALFF
Description:
In 5.1, in ha_ndb_cluster.cc, in ndb_util_thread_func(),
the code contain at the beginning:

   pthread_mutex_lock(&LOCK_ndb_util_thread);

  thd= new THD; /* note that contructor of THD uses DBUG_ */
  if (thd == NULL)
  {
    my_errno= HA_ERR_OUT_OF_MEM;
    DBUG_RETURN(NULL);
  }

If the server is out of memory (which might happen under normal operations if we implement per thread memory quotas), this function returns while holding a lock on the LOCK_ndb_util_thread mutex.

Note that fix bug exist in 5.1 and 6.0, but not in 5.0,
so technically this is a risk of regression with a dead lock.

How to repeat:
Code review

Suggested fix:
Fix the indentation
Fix the comments typos
Allocate THD before locking the mutex, which will make the critical section smaller as well.
[16 Apr 2009 13:51] Jonathan Miller
Should be an unlock when exiting, but not during run time/per martin