# HG changeset patch # User Charles-François Natali # Date 1328209039 -3600 # Node ID c3649173d093ce3bb2f887c1b4c3207196f1f453 # Parent 0b8917fc6db55d371573398c2ae29b120be40a19 Issue #13817: After fork(), reinit the ad-hoc TLS implementation earlier to fix a random deadlock when fork() is called in a multithreaded process in debug mode, and make PyOS_AfterFork() more robust. diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py --- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py @@ -635,6 +635,29 @@ class ThreadJoinOnShutdown(BaseTestCase) output = "end of worker thread\nend of main thread\n" self.assertScriptHasOutput(script, output) + @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(os, 'fork'), "needs os.fork()") + def test_reinit_tls_after_fork(self): + # Issue #13817: fork() would deadlock in a multithreaded program with + # the ad-hoc TLS implementation. + + def do_fork_and_wait(): + # just fork a child process and wait it + pid = os.fork() + if pid > 0: + os.waitpid(pid, 0) + else: + os._exit(0) + + # start a bunch of threads that will fork() child processes + threads = [] + for i in range(16): + t = threading.Thread(target=do_fork_and_wait) + threads.append(t) + t.start() + + for t in threads: + t.join() + class ThreadingExceptionTests(BaseTestCase): # A RuntimeError should be raised if Thread.start() is called diff --git a/Modules/signalmodule.c b/Modules/signalmodule.c --- a/Modules/signalmodule.c +++ b/Modules/signalmodule.c @@ -976,11 +976,13 @@ void PyOS_AfterFork(void) { #ifdef WITH_THREAD + /* PyThread_ReInitTLS() must be called early, to make sure that the TLS API + * can be called safely. */ + PyThread_ReInitTLS(); _PyGILState_Reinit(); PyEval_ReInitThreads(); main_thread = PyThread_get_thread_ident(); main_pid = getpid(); _PyImport_ReInitLock(); - PyThread_ReInitTLS(); #endif }