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Previously, ProcSignalInit() read the global barrier generation before publishing its PID into pss_pid. This created a race condition: a process could initialize its local generation with an older global value, while a concurrent EmitProcSignalBarrier() might skip that process because its pss_pid was still zero. This resulted in WaitForProcSignalBarrier() hanging indefinitely. Fix this by publishing pss_pid before reading psh_barrierGeneration with a memory barrier so that the store to pss_pid is ordered before the load. A concurrent EmitProcSignalBarrier() then either observes the published PID and signals this slot, or completes its generation increment before we load it. While this race has become more visible due to recent features using signal barriers in more places (such as online wal_level changes), the issue is theoretically present since signal barriers were introduced to release smgr caches (e.g., in DROP DATABASE). v14 has the procsiangl barrier infrastricutre but no in-tree caller that actually emits a barrier, so the case is unreachable there. This issue was also reported by buildfarm member flaviventris. Reported-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WgAJmWReDN7Chtba8Er2YBvKCoa0KVN25-1evnTrHsLyA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 15
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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