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  1. Log4cxx
  2. LOGCXX-146

DailyRollingFileAppender::~DailyRollingFileAppender must call finalize

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 0.9.7
    • None
    • Appender
    • None
    • Windows XP/2003 built with Visual Studio 2003

    Description

      DailyRollingFileAppender::~DailyRollingFileAppender must call finalize.

      When the process is shutting down it destroys global objects.
      Thus the DailyRolingFileAppender instances will be destroyed.
      These inherit from FileAppender, and indirectly virtually inherit from Object.
      The FileAppender within its destructor attempts to close the files (via Finalize), however the object is now already partly destroyed. In WriterAppender::close before closing the file a synchronization lock is acquired, but indirectly calling ObjectImpl::lock which has been virtually inheritted. Because the object has been partially destroyed the offset for the 'this' parameter to ObjectImpl::lock gets incorrectly calculated, and the address of the critical section object passed to EnterCriticalSection is wrong.

      The synchronization uses a critical section object, which contains a spin count. Depending on the values in memory (at the now wrong address) the following are all possible:
      1) Spinning CPU for some seconds
      2) deadlock

      A stack trace of the problem looks like this:

      ntdll!RtlEnterCriticalSection
      log4cxx!log4cxx::helpers::CriticalSection::lock
      log4cxx!log4cxx::WriterAppender::close
      log4cxx!log4cxx::FileAppender::~FileAppender
      log4cxx!log4cxx::DailyRollingFileAppender::~DailyRollingFileAppender
      log4cxx!log4cxx::nt::SizeLimitedDailyRollingFileAppender::`vbase destructor'
      log4cxx!log4cxx::nt::SizeLimitedDailyRollingFileAppender::`vector deleting destructor'
      log4cxx!log4cxx::helpers::ObjectImpl::releaseRef
      log4cxx!std::_Destroy_range<log4cxx::helpers::ObjectPtrT<log4cxx::Appender>,std::allocator<log4cxx::helpers::ObjectPtrT<log4cxx::Appender> > >
      log4cxx!log4cxx::helpers::AppenderAttachableImpl::~AppenderAttachableImpl
      log4cxx!log4cxx::helpers::AppenderAttachableImpl::`vector deleting destructor'
      log4cxx!log4cxx::helpers::ObjectImpl::releaseRef
      log4cxx!log4cxx::Logger::~Logger
      log4cxx!log4cxx::Logger::`vector deleting destructor'
      log4cxx!log4cxx::helpers::ObjectImpl::releaseRef
      log4cxx!std::pair<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > const ,log4cxx::helpers::ObjectPtrT<log4cxx::Logger> >::~pair<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > const ,log4cxx::helpers::ObjectPtrT<log4cxx::Logger> >
      log4cxx!std::_Tree<std::_Tmap_traits<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >,log4cxx::helpers::ObjectPtrT<log4cxx::Logger>,std::less<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > >,std::allocator<std::pair<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > const ,log4cxx::helpers::ObjectPtrT<log4cxx::Logger> > >,0> >::_Erase
      log4cxx!std::_Tree<std::_Tmap_traits<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >,log4cxx::helpers::ObjectPtrT<log4cxx::Logger>,std::less<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > >,std::allocator<std::pair<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> > const ,log4cxx::helpers::ObjectPtrT<log4cxx::Logger> > >,0> >::erase
      log4cxx!log4cxx::Hierarchy::~Hierarchy
      log4cxx!log4cxx::Hierarchy::`vbase destructor'
      log4cxx!log4cxx::Hierarchy::`vector deleting destructor'
      log4cxx!log4cxx::helpers::ObjectImpl::releaseRef
      log4cxx!log4cxx::spi::DefaultRepositorySelector::`vector deleting destructor'
      log4cxx!log4cxx::helpers::ObjectImpl::releaseRef
      log4cxx!_CRT_INIT
      log4cxx!_DllMainCRTStartup
      ntdll!LdrpCallInitRoutine
      ntdll!LdrShutdownProcess
      kernel32!_ExitProcess
      kernel32!ExitProcess
      MSVCR71!__crtExitProcess
      MSVCR71!_cinit

      Solution:
      Call finalize within DailyRollingFileAppender::~DailyRollingFileAppender just like all the other appenders do.
      Also all user defined / derived appenders must do this, and it may be worth adding code to detect that it has not been done.

      I can be reached at mark dot bartosik at reuters dot com

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            carnold@apache.org Curt Arnold
            mbartosik Mark Bartosik
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