AVOID DEADLOCK AFTER RESTORE
Analysis
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Accessing the restored NDB table in an active multi-statement
transaction was resulting in deadlock found error.
MySQL Server needs to discover metadata of NDB table from
data nodes after table is restored from backup. Metadata
discovery happens on the first access to restored table.
Current code mandates this statement to be the first one
in the transaction. This is because discover needs exclusive
metadata lock on the table. Lock upgrade at this point can
lead to MDL deadlock and the code was written at the time
when MDL deadlock detector was not present. In case when
discovery attempted in the statement other than the first
one in transaction ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK error is reported
pessimistically.
Fix:
---
Removed the constraint as any potential deadlock will be
handled by deadlock detector. Also changed code in discover
to keep metadata locks of active transaction.
Same issue was present in table auto repair scenario. Same
fix is added in repair path also.
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revno: 2617.69.21
committer: Konstantin Osipov <kostja@sun.com>
branch nick: 5.4-4284-1-assert
timestamp: Thu 2009-08-13 20:13:55 +0400
message:
A fix and a test case for Bug#46610 "MySQL 5.4.4: MyISAM MRG engine crash
on auto-repair of child".
Also fixes Bug#42862 "Crash on failed attempt to open a children of a
merge table".
MERGE engine needs to extend the global table list
with TABLE_LIST elements for child tables,
so that they are opened and locked.
Previously these table list elements were allocated
in memory of ha_myisammrg object (MERGE engine handler).
That would lead to access to freed memory in
recover_from_failed_open_table_attempt(), which would
try to recover a MERGE table child (MyISAM table)
and use for that TABLE_LIST of that child.
But by the time recover_from_failed_open_table_attempt()
is invoked, ha_myisammrg object that owns this
TABLE_LIST may be destroyed, and thus TABLE_LIST
memory freed.
The fix is to ensure that TABLE_LIST elements
that are added to the global table list (lex->query_tables)
are always allocated in thd->mem_root, which is not
destroyed until end of execution.
If previously TABLE_LIST elements were allocated
at ha_myisammrg::open() (i.e. when the TABLE
object was created and added to the table cache),
now they are allocated in ha_myisammrg::add_chidlren_list()
(i.e. right after "open" of the merge parent in
open_tables()).
We still create a list of children names
at ha_myisammrg::open() to use as a basis
for creation of TABLE_LISTs, that allows
to avoid reading the merge handler data
file on every execution.
