Informix - Problem description
Problem IT11620 | Status: Closed |
REQUESTS TO ABORT READAHEAD OPERATIONS MAY NOT BE NOTICED BY THE READAHEAD DAEMON LEADING TO POTENTIAL FOR MEMORY CORRUPTION | |
product: | |
INFORMIX SERVER / 5725A3900 / C10 - IDS 12.10 | |
Problem description: | |
Following the submission of a request to read ahead index or data pages the requesting thread may issue an abort request for that request if the pages are no longer required. The request is processed by one of the readahead threads but this may not notice the abort request either during or prior to commencement of the request processing. When this happens there is the potential for the unintentional modification of memory in the thread associated with the original request. Depending on the activities of the originating thread such modification may go unnoticed or may lead to an Assert Failure. There could be many different stacks seen for the AF but two scenarios have been seen during the exit processing of the thread. One is an Assert Failure for a bad block header and the other is a crash with a stack such as: (oninit) afstack (oninit) mt_ex_throw_sig (oninit) afsig_handler (Linux) (oninit) opfree (oninit) rscleanup (oninit) sqscb_cleanup (oninit) destroy_session (oninit) sq_exit (oninit) sqmain (oninit) spawn_thread | |
Problem Summary: | |
**************************************************************** * USERS AFFECTED: * * When readahead is active * **************************************************************** * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: * * See Error Description * **************************************************************** * RECOMMENDATION: * * Upgrade to 12.10.xC6 * **************************************************************** | |
Local Fix: | |
Solution | |
Workaround | |
not known / see Local fix | |
Timestamps | |
Date - problem reported : Date - problem closed : Date - last modified : | 07.10.2015 19.01.2016 19.01.2016 |
Problem solved at the following versions (IBM BugInfos) | |
12.10.xC6 | |
Problem solved according to the fixlist(s) of the following version(s) | |
12.10.xC6 |