[perl #125685] Thread race in dist/IO/IO.xs

On Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:22:30 -0800, jkeenan wrote:
> I can confirm that 986a805c4b258067b82c4f1254518e53cdb1acdf
> is the problematic commit.

I took a quick look through, and the manipulation of PL_check[] looked thread-unsafe; checking a bit further I find in perlvars.h:
  For thread safety, modules should not write directly to this array.
  Instead, use the function L</wrap_op_checker>.

I don't see mention of a function to remove the inserted checker again though, I guess that's rather harder to do safely.

Hugo

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• [perl #125685] Thread race in dist/IO/IO.xs by Hugo van der Sanden via RT