1. 29 Nov, 2019 1 commit
    • global: convert to fiber-local storage to fix exit races · 5c6180b5
      On Windows platforms, we automatically clean up the thread-local storage
      upon detaching a thread via `DllMain()`. The thing is that this happens
      for every thread of applications that link against the libgit2 DLL, even
      those that don't have anything to do with libgit2 itself. As a result,
      we cannot assume that these unsuspecting threads make use of our
      `git_libgit2_init()` and `git_libgit2_shutdow()` reference counting,
      which may lead to racy situations:
      
          Thread 1                    Thread 2
      
          git_libgit2_shutdown()
                                      DllMain(DETACH_THREAD)
                                      git__free_tls_data()
          git_atomic_dec() == 0
          git__free_tls_data()
          TlsFree(_tls_index)
                                      TlsGetValue(_tls_index)
      
      Due to the second thread never having executed `git_libgit2_init()`, the
      first thread will clean up TLS data and as a result also free the
      `_tls_index` variable. When detaching the second thread, we
      unconditionally access the now-free'd `_tls_index` variable, which is
      obviously not going to work out well.
      
      Fix the issue by converting the code to use fiber-local storage instead
      of thread-local storage. While FLS will behave the exact same as TLS if
      no fibers are in use, it does allow us to specify a destructor similar
      to the one that is accepted by pthread_key_create(3P). Like this, we do
      not have to manually free indices anymore, but will let the FLS handle
      calling the destructor. This allows us to get rid of `DllMain()`
      completely, as we only used it to keep track of when threads were
      exiting and results in an overall simplification of TLS cleanup.
      Patrick Steinhardt committed
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