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  1. Harmony
  2. HARMONY-6653

Use instance lock to protect static share data in ObjID.java

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 6.0M1
    • 5.0M16
    • Classlib
    • None
    • Window XP

    Description

      I found unsafe synchonrization in ObjID.java as follow:

      private static class NumberGenerator {
      static long numCounter = 65536;
      ...
      synchronized long nextLong()

      { return useRandom ? sGenerator.nextLong() : numCounter++; }

      ...
      }

      numCounter is a static class field. querySerialNumber increment (non-atomic) operation is in a synchronized method which means it is protected by "this".

      Consequence:
      Different object instances will synchronize on different "this", numCounter increment is not protected by a uniform lock. It results in race condition in numCounter increment, thus having incorrect numCounter value.

      It would be more proper to write the code as follows:
      private static class NumberGenerator {
      static long numCounter = 65536;
      private static final Object monitor = new Object()
      ...
      long nextLong() {
      synchornized(monitor)

      { return useRandom ? sGenerator.nextLong() : numCounter++; }

      }
      ...
      }

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            tellison Tim Ellison
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