sqlite: keep sessions alive across SQLite callbacks - #65465
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Session objects are weak and nothing else holds a strong reference to them, so a garbage collection can free one while SQLite is still using it. SQLite runs "PRAGMA table_xinfo" from inside its pre-update hook, which reaches JavaScript, so a GC during a callback invoked from there can collect a session the hook is still walking. Hold a strong reference to every attached session for the duration of each callback SQLite invokes. The trace callback now enters that guard before building its payload, since the allocation can itself trigger a garbage collection. Fixes: nodejs#65460 Signed-off-by: Trevor Burnham <trevorburnham@gmail.com>
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Return the pinned sessions by value instead of appending to a caller's vector, which read as an append but reserved as if the target were empty. Signed-off-by: Trevor Burnham <trevorburnham@gmail.com>
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Session objects are weak and nothing else holds a strong reference to them, so a garbage collection can free one while SQLite is still using it. SQLite runs "PRAGMA table_xinfo" from inside its pre-update hook, which reaches JavaScript, so a GC during a callback invoked from there can collect a session the hook is still walking. Hold a strong reference to every attached session for the duration of each callback SQLite invokes. The trace callback now enters that guard before building its payload, since the allocation can itself trigger a garbage collection. Fixes: #65460 Signed-off-by: Trevor Burnham <trevorburnham@gmail.com> PR-URL: #65465 Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
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SessioncallsMakeWeak()andDatabaseSync::sessions_holds rawSession*, so nothing keeps a session alive once JavaScript drops the reference. SQLite runsPRAGMA table_xinfofrom inside its pre-update hook, which reaches JavaScript, so a GC during a callback invoked from there collects the session the hook is still walking:CallbackDepthGuardalready wraps every point where SQLite hands control back to JavaScript (authorizer, trace subscriber, user-defined functions, aggregates, changeset apply), so it now also holds aBaseObjectPtrto each attached session for the callback's duration.BaseObjectPtrclears the weak handle on the first strong reference and restores it on the last, so a session that JavaScript no longer references simply becomes collectable again once the callback returns. Connections with no sessions allocate nothing.Making
sessions_strong instead would create a cycle withSession::database_, which is deliberately strong (a session must keep its database alive), and leak both objects.TraceCallbackbuilt its payload before entering the guard. That allocation can trigger a GC, so the guard moves above it. I could not get that window to crash on demand, even with--gc-interval=1, so treat it as defensive rather than a demonstrated fix.Fixes: #65460