[Geary] [PATCH] Fix synchronization deadlock in SpinWaiter.wait()

["Mark R. Pariente" <markpariente gmail com>]

The new implementation of g_cond_wait_until() in glib 2.42 uses futex on
linux if available which results in a very tight window of time between
acquiring the mutex and releasing it. In some systems this window of
time is not sufficient for the SpinWaiter.notify() thread to ever
acquire the mutex, leading to deadlocks where SpinWaiter.wait() keeps
re-acquiring the mutex and endlessly trying cond.wait_until() even
though the notify() thread is trying to signal the condition.

The "fix" here is to intentionally release the mutex when calling into
the PollService callback to give the notify() thread a chance to acquire
the mutex.

This addresses https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737811 which
is marked resolved/fixed which at least for my system wasn't fixed yet.
---
 src/engine/util/util-synchronization.vala | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/engine/util/util-synchronization.vala
b/src/engine/util/util-synchronization.vala
index 9416d12..5296b53 100644
--- a/src/engine/util/util-synchronization.vala
+++ b/src/engine/util/util-synchronization.vala
@@ -64,10 +64,13 @@ public class SpinWaiter : BaseObject {
             int64 end_time = get_monotonic_time() + (actual_poll_msec
* TimeSpan.MILLISECOND);
             if (!cond.wait_until(mutex, end_time)) {
                 // timeout passed, allow the callback to run
+                mutex.unlock();
                 if (!cb()) {
                     // PollService returned false, abort
+                    mutex.lock();
                     break;
                 }
+                mutex.lock();
             }
         }

-- 
2.1.3
--Mark