Attachment 80220 Details for Bug 65296 – [Gabble] Initialize libdbus for thread-safety

[patch] [Gabble] Initialize libdbus for thread-safety

0001-Initialize-libdbus-for-thread-safety.patch (text/plain), 1.73 KB, created by Simon McVittie on 2013-06-03 11:55:34 UTC

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>From fe567e310d2e77bdb24f0001140910a0a86a7a77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
>Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:51:13 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH] Initialize libdbus for thread-safety
>
>libdbus is not thread-safe by default. This is a long-standing design
>flaw (<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54972>).
>
>We call into GIO, which calls into glib-networking, which can
>(at least in recent versions) invoke libproxy in a thread. libproxy
>apparently has a Network-Manager plugin, which uses libdbus in that
>thread; meanwhile, we use libdbus in the main thread and everything
>goes badly for us.
>
>(It's possible that this crash is only reproducible with broken
>connectivity: I wrote this patch on a train, with intermittent
>mobile broadband coverage.)
>
>In libdbus < 1.7.4, libraries cannot safely initialize libdbus for
>multi-threading, because that initialization is not itself
>thread-safe (!); in particular, glib-networking cannot safely initialize
>libdbus. So, we have to do it.
>
>I have written patches to make libdbus thread-safe-by-default, but
>they haven't all been reviewed and merged yet, and in any case they
>won't be in a stable libdbus until 1.8. Until then, each application
>has to discover and fix this bug individually.
>---
> src/gabble.c |    3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/src/gabble.c b/src/gabble.c
>index 1cb2b8f..b2d5425 100644
>--- a/src/gabble.c
>+++ b/src/gabble.c
>@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
> # include <unistd.h>
> #endif
> 
>+#include <dbus/dbus.h>
>+
> #include <glib/gstdio.h>
> 
> #include <telepathy-glib/telepathy-glib.h>
>@@ -106,6 +108,7 @@ log_handler (const gchar *log_domain,
> void
> gabble_init (void)
> {
>+  dbus_threads_init_default ();
>   g_type_init ();
>   wocky_init ();
> }
>-- 
>1.7.10.4
>

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