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authorRogier <rogier777@gmail.com>2016-07-25 18:39:29 +0200
committerparamat <mat.gregory@virginmedia.com>2016-10-16 01:13:16 +0100
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Emergeblocks: Fix occasional crash
Modification of the emergeblocks internal state was not protected by a lock, causing a race condition. This can be reproduced by repeatedly running emergeblocks for an already-generated section of the map (with multiple emerge threads).
Diffstat (limited to 'src/script/cpp_api')
-rw-r--r--src/script/cpp_api/s_env.cpp4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/script/cpp_api/s_env.cpp b/src/script/cpp_api/s_env.cpp
index 82d0d4f0e..913d8539d 100644
--- a/src/script/cpp_api/s_env.cpp
+++ b/src/script/cpp_api/s_env.cpp
@@ -212,11 +212,13 @@ void ScriptApiEnv::on_emerge_area_completion(
{
Server *server = getServer();
+ // This function should be executed with envlock held.
+ // The caller (LuaEmergeAreaCallback in src/script/lua_api/l_env.cpp)
+ // should have obtained the lock.
// Note that the order of these locks is important! Envlock must *ALWAYS*
// be acquired before attempting to acquire scriptlock, or else ServerThread
// will try to acquire scriptlock after it already owns envlock, thus
// deadlocking EmergeThread and ServerThread
- MutexAutoLock envlock(server->m_env_mutex);
SCRIPTAPI_PRECHECKHEADER