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  1. Log4j 2
  2. LOG4J2-471

toString methods that perform logging can deadlock AsyncLogger

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 2.0-beta9
    • 2.0-rc1, 2.0
    • Core
    • None
    • Debian Squeeze
      Java 7u25

    Description

      The AsyncLogger thread is the only consumer of a Disruptor RingBuffer which contains log events ostensibly produced by a number of other threads. However, when AsyncLogger generates a log message, it has to call toString() on objects which can potentially also perform logging internally. This results in a situation when the RingBuffer is nearly full whereby AsyncLogger has pulled an event from the RingBuffer, calls toString() on the associated objects, which call AsyncLogger.log which attempts to publish an event into a full buffer, which will park repeatedly without hope of ever leaving the loop. Relevant stack trace is:
      "AsyncLogger-1" daemon prio=10 tid=0x00007f7a705a8000 nid=0x3d73 runnable [0x00007f7a740d1000]
      java.lang.Thread.State: TIMED_WAITING (parking)
      at sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)
      at java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.parkNanos(LockSupport.java:349)
      at com.lmax.disruptor.MultiProducerSequencer.next(MultiProducerSequencer.java:133)
      at com.lmax.disruptor.MultiProducerSequencer.next(MultiProducerSequencer.java:102)
      at com.lmax.disruptor.RingBuffer.publishEvent(RingBuffer.java:391)
      at com.lmax.disruptor.dsl.Disruptor.publishEvent(Disruptor.java:219)
      at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.AsyncLogger.log(AsyncLogger.java:214)
      at org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.AbstractLoggerWrapper.log(AbstractLoggerWrapper.java:55)
      at org.slf4j.impl.SLF4JLogger.debug(SLF4JLogger.java:138)
      at org.somepackage.SomeException.toString (SomeException.java:32)
      at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2854)
      at java.io.PrintWriter.println(PrintWriter.java:754)
      at java.lang.Throwable$WrappedPrintWriter.println(Throwable.java:763)
      at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(Throwable.java:654)

      • locked <0x00000000cb2f6380> (a java.io.PrintWriter)
        at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(Throwable.java:720)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.pattern.ThrowablePatternConverter.formatOption(ThrowablePatternConverter.java:138)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.pattern.ThrowablePatternConverter.format(ThrowablePatternConverter.java:80)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.pattern.ExtendedThrowablePatternConverter.format(ExtendedThrowablePatternConverter.java:69)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.pattern.PatternFormatter.format(PatternFormatter.java:36)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout.toSerializable(PatternLayout.java:167)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout.toSerializable(PatternLayout.java:52)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.AbstractStringLayout.toByteArray(AbstractStringLayout.java:45)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AbstractOutputStreamAppender.append(AbstractOutputStreamAppender.java:111)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingRandomAccessFileAppender.append(RollingRandomAccessFileAppender.java:96)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderControl.callAppender(AppenderControl.java:99)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig.callAppenders(LoggerConfig.java:425)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig.log(LoggerConfig.java:406)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Logger$PrivateConfig.logEvent(Logger.java:273)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.AsyncLogger.actualAsyncLog(AsyncLogger.java:230)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.RingBufferLogEvent.execute(RingBufferLogEvent.java:98)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.RingBufferLogEventHandler.onEvent(RingBufferLogEventHandler.java:43)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.RingBufferLogEventHandler.onEvent(RingBufferLogEventHandler.java:28)
        at com.lmax.disruptor.BatchEventProcessor.run(BatchEventProcessor.java:133)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)

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        1. LOG4J2-471.patch
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          Anthony Baldocchi

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