Bug #36499 Maria: potential deadlock
Submitted: 5 May 2008 8:33 Modified: 26 Aug 2008 12:34
Reporter: Guilhem Bichot Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Maria storage engine Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.1-maria OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[5 May 2008 8:33] Guilhem Bichot 
Description:
See this comment in write_hook_for_undo_key() (storage/maria/ma_key_recover.c):
  /**
    @todo BUG
    so we have log mutex and then intern_lock.
    While in checkpoint we have intern_lock and then log mutex, like when we
    flush bitmap (flushing bitmap pages can call hook which takes log mutex).
    So we can deadlock.
    Another one is that in translog_assign_id_to_share() we have intern_lock
    and then log mutex.
  */

How to repeat:
Triggering the deadlock in practice is quite hard, but in theory it can happen.
[26 Aug 2008 12:34] Michael Widenius 
Fixed by introducing another mutex to handle key_del list
[26 Oct 2008 22:20] Bugs System 
Pushed into 6.0.8-alpha  (revid:monty@mysql.com-20080826123457-owryg38om3hspr9l) (version source revid:guilhem@mysql.com-20081020191322-i0e65e3k8044kkce) (pib:5)