Summary:
SmallestUnCommittedSeq reads two data structures, prepared_txns_ and delayed_prepared_. These two are updated in CheckPreparedAgainstMax when max_evicted_seq_ advances some prepared entires. To avoid the cost of acquiring a mutex, the read from them in SmallestUnCommittedSeq is not atomic. This creates a potential race condition.
The fix is to read the two data structures in the reverse order of their update. CheckPreparedAgainstMax copies the prepared entry to delayed_prepared_ before removing it from prepared_txns_ and SmallestUnCommittedSeq looks into prepared_txns_ before reading delayed_prepared_.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/5683
Differential Revision: D16744699
Pulled By: maysamyabandeh
fbshipit-source-id: b1bdb134018beb0b9de58827f512662bea35cad0
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