AbstractSockJsSession deadlock when tomcat WsSession is closing [SPR-14917]

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Ekaterina Grebtsova opened SPR-14917 and commented

We are using spring version 4.2.8 and tomcat 7. And we got deadlock when tomcat started closing websocket session and in the same time AbstractSockJsSession started hearbeat task.

THREAD 1:
org.springframework.web.socket.sockjs.transport.session.AbstractSockJsSession.HeartbeatTask
-> LOCK org.springframework.web.socket.sockjs.transport.session.AbstractSockJsSession#responseLock LOCK
-> org.springframework.web.socket.sockjs.transport.session.AbstractSockJsSession#sendHeartbeat
-> org.springframework.web.socket.sockjs.transport.session.AbstractSockJsSession#writeFrame
-> org.springframework.web.socket.sockjs.transport.session.WebSocketServerSockJsSession#disconnect
-> org.springframework.web.socket.adapter.AbstractWebSocketSession#close(org.springframework.web.socket.CloseStatus)
-> org.springframework.web.socket.adapter.standard.StandardWebSocketSession#closeInternal
-> org.apache.tomcat.websocket.WsSession#close(javax.websocket.CloseReason)
-> org.apache.tomcat.websocket.WsSession#doClose
-> DEADLOCK org.apache.tomcat.websocket.WsSession#stateLock DEADLOCK

THREAD 2:
org.apache.tomcat.websocket.WsSession#onClose
-> LOCK org.apache.tomcat.websocket.WsSession#stateLock LOCK
-> org.apache.tomcat.websocket.WsSession#fireEndpointOnClose
-> org.springframework.web.socket.adapter.standard.StandardWebSocketHandlerAdapter#onClose
-> org.springframework.web.socket.sockjs.transport.handler.SockJsWebSocketHandler#afterConnectionClosed
-> org.springframework.web.socket.sockjs.transport.session.AbstractSockJsSession#delegateConnectionClosed
-> org.springframework.web.socket.sockjs.transport.session.AbstractSockJsSession#cancelHeartbeat
-> DEADLOCK org.springframework.web.socket.sockjs.transport.session.AbstractSockJsSession#responseLock DEADLOCK

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Affects: 4.2.8

Issue Links:

• SockJs heartbeat causes deadlock with XHR polling [SPR-14833] #19399 SockJs heartbeat causes deadlock with XHR polling

Backported to: 4.2.9

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Rossen Stoyanchev commented

I've made a change that should fix this. Thanks for the report! Not sure how easy it is to test but it would be great if you could try it out.