Thread-safety problem in BasicAction ------------------------------------ Key: JBTM-2846 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBTM-2846 Project: JBoss Transaction Manager Issue Type: Bug Components: Transaction Core Affects Versions: 5.4.0.Final Reporter: David Lloyd Priority: Critical It is possible for multiple threads to have a given transaction association at the same time ({{com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.BasicAction#_childThreads}}). However, only inconsistent protection is provided for {{com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.BasicAction#actionStatus}}. In particular, the {{com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionImple#setRollbackOnly}} method directly calls {{com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.BasicAction#preventCommit}}, which, without lock or atomicity, both reads and modifies {{actionStatus}}. This will result in a poorly-defined outcome when threads concurrently call {{setRollbackOnly()}} and, say, {{rollback()}}. Other methods access {{actionStatus}} without regard to concurrently protection, including: * {{com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.BasicAction#save_state}} * {{com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.BasicAction#toString}} * {{com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.BasicAction#restore_state}} Some methods appear to be assuming that other methods will acquire the instance monitor before calling them; as a matter of best practice, such methods should have {{assert Thread.holdsLock(this);}} at their beginning point. Other fields in the class should also be analyzed for unsafe access.