On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:01:58PM -0500, Zebediah Figura wrote:
Signed-off-by: Zebediah Figura z.figura12@gmail.com
In a sense this is just to make the code simpler, but the problem it causes would happen anyway. The basic problem is that destroying an apartment cleans up its proxy manager, which calls proxy_manager_get_remunknown() in order to release the IRemUnknown if it exists, and this may end up unmarshalling the IRemUnknown, triggering calls to CoGetClassObject (as well as CoGetPSClsid() etc.) Later it's also necessary to call apartment_get_current_or_mta() in proxy_manager_get_remunknown() itself. As far as I understand we wouldn't tear down the proxy manager from a different thread than the MTA was initialized on, but we might call proxy_manager_get_remunknown() from a different thread, so this is necessary.
Alternate solutions, I guess:
- Use the apartment's critical section instead. This seems existentially not quite appropriate, and it's not clear to me what all of the implications of this would be.
- Try to restructure where the apartment is grabbed.
- Perhaps don't even grab a reference to the MTA at all. This seems terrible on its face, but it also seems true that an app which closes the MTA while it's using an MTA object is pretty broken.
There is quite a lot of DCOM about, so I'd at least appreciate help in determining whether this solution or any of the alternates is best.
This will need some thought. I'll get back to you.
Huw.