Bug#43230: SELECT ... FOR UPDATE can hang with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK indefinitely

The problem is that a SELECT .. FOR UPDATE statement might open
a table and later wait for a impeding global read lock without
noticing whether it is holding a table that is being waited upon
the the flush phase of the process that took the global read
lock.

The same problem also affected the following statements:

LOCK TABLES .. WRITE
UPDATE .. SET (update and multi-table update)
TRUNCATE TABLE ..
LOAD DATA ..

The solution is to make the above statements wait for a impending
global read lock before opening the tables. If there is no
impending global read lock, the statement raises a temporary
protection against global read locks and progresses smoothly
towards completion.

Important notice: the patch does not try to address all possible
cases, only those which are common and can be fixed unintrusively
enough for 5.0.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sql/sql_lex.cc b/sql/sql_lex.cc
index 4c53772bc25..da31106648a 100644
--- a/sql/sql_lex.cc
+++ b/sql/sql_lex.cc
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ void lex_start(THD *thd)
   lex->nest_level=0 ;
   lex->allow_sum_func= 0;
   lex->in_sum_func= NULL;
+  lex->protect_against_global_read_lock= FALSE;
   DBUG_VOID_RETURN;
 }