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Admin port: No synchronisation in NetworkAdminConsole which may be called from any thread #9388

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JGRennison opened this issue Jun 19, 2021 · 1 comment · Fixed by #9456
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@JGRennison
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master

Expected result

No thread safety issues.

Actual result

NetworkAdminConsole may be called at any time from any thread via the Debug macro.
This iterates ServerNetworkAdminSocketHandler instances and calls ServerNetworkAdminSocketHandler::SendConsole as required without performing any synchronisation.
Iterating ServerNetworkAdminSocketHandler whilst it is being modified could theoretically result in unwanted behaviour.
Concurrent calls to Packet::AddToQueue, or concurrent calls to Packet::AddToQueue and Packet::PopFromQueue, could theoretically result in a malformed packet queue.

I noticed this issue because I received a crash report where the above issue was triggered by debug messages logged from the UDP advertisement thread.

JGRennison added a commit to JGRennison/OpenTTD-patches that referenced this issue Jun 20, 2021
@rubidium42
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I think the issue is bigger than what you have fixed in your patch. Under the assumption that _settings_client.gui.developer >= 2 IConsolePrint gets called which might also call NetworkServerSendRcon and NetworkServerSendAdminRcon.

Similarly send(_debug_socket... in DebugPrint might be prone to the same issue, although that would be more "unintended" behaviour: 'send should not be called on the same stream-oriented socket concurrently from different threads, because some Winsock providers may split a large send request into multiple transmissions, and this may lead to unintended data interleaving from multiple concurrent send requests on the same stream-oriented socket' (winsock2 send() documentation). That might be solved easily with a guard in the actual function.

I am wondering what the effect would be of just queueing those debug messages after fputs, and then pushing them to the admins and in-game console from the "safe" thread. In really spammy debug sessions that might create quite a queue in-memory, so we ought to employ a similar check to whether to queue you have added.
That would also have the added benefit of not accidentally passing debug prints as replies to RCons.

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