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pbx: Deadlock between contexts container and context_merge locks
Recent changes (ASTERISK-25394 commit 2bd27d12) introduced the possibility of a deadlock. Due to the mentioned modifications ast_change_hints now needs to keep both merge/delete and state callbacks from occurring while it executes. Unfortunately, sometimes ast_change_hints can be called with the contexts container locked. When this happens it's possible for another thread to grab the context_merge_lock before the thread calling into ast_change_hints does and then try to obtain the contexts container lock. This of course causes a deadlock between the two threads. The thread calling into ast_change_hints waits for the other thread to release context_merge_lock and the other thread is waiting on that one to release the contexts container lock. Unfortunately, there is not a great way to fix this problem. When hints change, the subsequent state callbacks cannot run at the same time as a merge/delete, nor when the usual state callbacks do. This patch alleviates the problem by having those particular callbacks (the ones run after a hint change) occur in a serialized task. By moving the context_merge_lock to a task it can now safely be attempted or held without a deadlock occurring. ASTERISK-25640 #close Reported by: Krzysztof Trempala Change-Id: If2210ea241afd1585dc2594c16faff84579bf302
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