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fix(core): fix geth --init temp dir race condition #2068

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@Rjected Rjected commented Jan 21, 2023

Motivation

Previously, if multiple instances of geth were spawned concurrently, only one directory would be used to populate geth's genesis.json. This can lead to a race condition where the genesis.json would be re-written by a second instance, before the first instance reads the genesis.json for populating its db and genesis block with the geth --init command. this was possible because directory returned by std::env::temp_dir() is often shared.

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This fixes the race condition by using tempfile::tempdir(), which creates a unique directory per call to tempdir().

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  • Added Tests
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  • Updated the changelog
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 * previously, if multiple instances of geth were spawned concurrently,
   only one directory would be used to populate geth's genesis.json.
   this can lead to a race condition where the genesis.json would be
   re-written by a second instance, before the first instance reads the
   genesis.json for populating its db and genesis block with the geth
   --init command. this was possible because directory returned by
   std::env::temp_dir() is often shared
 * fixes the race condition by using tempfile::tempdir(), which creates
   a unique directory per call to tempdir()
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for some reason this caused the wasm job to fail,
unused dependency, otherwise lgtm, nice catch

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Rjected commented Jan 21, 2023

just added:

[target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
tempfile = { version = "3.3.0", default-features = false }

to fix the unused dependency

@gakonst gakonst merged commit e9a808e into gakonst:master Jan 22, 2023
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