condition variable cleanup and subtransactions

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: condition variable cleanup and subtransactions
Date: 2017-12-21 11:00:48
Message-ID: 20171221110048.rxk6464azzl5t2fi@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2017-12-21 02:42:25 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> Trying to debug this I found another issue. I'd placed a sleep(10) in
> ExecParallelHashCloseBatchAccessors() and then ctrl-c'ed the server for
> some reason. Segfault time:
>
> #0 0x000055bfbac42539 in tas (lock=0x7fcd82ae14ac <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x7fcd82ae14ac>) at /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/include/storage/s_lock.h:228
> #1 0x000055bfbac42b4d in ConditionVariableCancelSleep () at /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/storage/lmgr/condition_variable.c:173
> #2 0x000055bfba8e24ae in AbortTransaction () at /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c:2478
> #3 0x000055bfba8e4a2a in AbortOutOfAnyTransaction () at /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c:4387

> So, afaics no workers had yet attached, the leader accepted the cancel
> interrupt, the dsm segments were destroyed, and as part of cleanup
> cv_sleep_target was supposed to be reset, which fails, because it's
> memory has since been freed. Looking at how that can happen.

Oh. This seems to be a condition variable bug independent of PHJ. The
problem is that the DSM segment etc all get cleaned up in
*subtransaction* abort.

Afaict it's a bug that AbortTransaction() does
ConditionVariableCancelSleep() but AbortSubTransaction() does not,
despite the latter releasing dsm segments via
ResourceOwnerRelease(RESOURCE_RELEASE_BEFORE_LOCKS).

Adding that seems to fix the crash.

This seems like something we need to backpatch.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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