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fix: avoid deadlock in publisher and subscriber #1749

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@aman-bansal aman-bansal commented Sep 23, 2021

There is one scenario where badger could end up in a deadlock state. Complete goroutine dump can be found here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nIrYlrbwlGtvk4WGDCzM0z996eEydaNI/view?usp=sharing

The issue is publisher sends out the messages over the subscriber channel and subscriber will process those message one at a time. Now subsriber channel size is 1000, so if the channel is completely filled publisher will wait indefinitly to send the message. And this is what happened. while processing the message, subscriber receive the error after 15 min and in the meantime publisher was waiting indefinitely for the channel to clear. On receiving the error subscriber asked the publisher to delete the subscriber and this turns into a deadlock state where one lock is acquired by the publisher to send the message and message processor of subscriber is waiting on that lock to delete the subscriber.

This PR tries to solve this issue by adding a atomic variable in subscriber so that publisher can stop sending out the new updates and thus making the deadlock to be released eventually.


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Looks good to me. A couple of minor comments.

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@aman-bansal aman-bansal merged commit 7677fcb into master Sep 24, 2021
@aman-bansal aman-bansal deleted the aman/fix_pub_deadlock branch September 24, 2021 14:40
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* fix: avoid deadlock in publisher and subscriber
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* fix: avoid deadlock in publisher and subscriber
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* fix: avoid deadlock in publisher and subscriber
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