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| -rw-r--r-- | http.c | 26 |
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@@ -1367,6 +1367,32 @@ void run_active_slot(struct active_request_slot *slot) select(max_fd+1, &readfds, &writefds, &excfds, &select_timeout); } } + + /* + * The value of slot->finished we set before the loop was used + * to set our "finished" variable when our request completed. + * + * 1. The slot may not have been reused for another requst + * yet, in which case it still has &finished. + * + * 2. The slot may already be in-use to serve another request, + * which can further be divided into two cases: + * + * (a) If call run_active_slot() hasn't been called for that + * other request, slot->finished would have been cleared + * by get_active_slot() and has NULL. + * + * (b) If the request did call run_active_slot(), then the + * call would have updated slot->finished at the beginning + * of this function, and with the clearing of the member + * below, we would find that slot->finished is now NULL. + * + * In all cases, slot->finished has no useful information to + * anybody at this point. Some compilers warn us for + * attempting to smuggle a pointer that is about to become + * invalid, i.e. &finished. We clear it here to assure them. + */ + slot->finished = NULL; } static void release_active_slot(struct active_request_slot *slot) |