core, light: get rid of the dual mutexes, hard to reason with#18436
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Haven't reviewed the code yet, but a fast-sync was completed with this PR without problems on |
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Even with the update, I get the same error. |
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just curious, will the following scenario cause a dead lock? though as the comment says, it only happens if the database is corrupted or empty
bc.SetHead -> bc.loadLastState -> bc.Reset -> bc.ResetWithGenesisBlock -> bc.SetHead
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Possibly fixes #18421 and #18388.
The block chain and light chain currently have two mutexes that protect its internal state:
muandchainmu. Themusupposed to protect internal state from getting corrupted whilstchaimufrom multiple modifications to the chain. However, modifying the internal state is equivalent to modifying the chain.Most of our code ended up only locking
mu(e.g. Rollback, SetHead), which although weren't chain insertions, they could really screw up the inserter. The reason this didn't blow up earlier is because most of these method calls are serialized by the downloader, hiding the ticking time bomb. Apparently a side chain import PR managed to destabilize the event orders and somehow triggered a chain modification without lockingmu.