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    client: Plug a race in proxy destruction vs. dispatch · 9744de9f
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    Closures created to hold events which will be dispatched on the client,
    take a reference to the proxy for the object the event was sent to, as
    well as the proxies for all objects referenced in that event.
    
    These references are dropped immediately before dispatch, with the
    display lock also being released. This leaves the potential for a
    vanishingly small race, where another thread drops the last reference
    on one of the proxies used in an event as it is being dispatched.
    
    Fix this by splitting decrease_closure_args_refcount into two functions:
    one which validates the objects (to ensure that clients are not returned
    objects which they have destroyed), and another which unrefs all proxies
    on the closure (object event was sent to, all referenced objects) as
    well as the closure itself. For symmetry, increase_closure_args_refcount
    is now the place where the refcount for the proxy for the object the
    event was sent to, is increased.
    
    This also happens to fix a bug: previously, if an event was sent to a
    client-destroyed object, and the event had object arguments, a reference
    would be leaked on the proxy for each of the object arguments.
    
    Found by inspection whilst reviewing the zombie-FD-leak series.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDerek Foreman <derekf@osg.samsung.com>
    Cc: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
    Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
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