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threading: debug validate mutexes with PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK

Added by Victor Julien over 2 years ago. Updated 12 months ago.

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The idea is that if we compile with --debug-validation, we:

- pass a pthread_mutexattr_t with PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK to all SCMutexInit calls
- add a check for each init/lock/unlock that aborts if the return code is not 0

Would have found #4478

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Updated by Victor Julien 12 months ago

@Philippe Antoine would this be helpful in fuzzing?

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Updated by Philippe Antoine 12 months ago

would this be helpful in fuzzing?

Only if fuzzing use multiple threads, which is not the case right now...

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