You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You switched accounts on another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.Dismiss alert
Fix crash when back-deploying concurrency to iOS 15.0/15.1-era OSs
The introduction of the library providing back-deployment fixes for
Swift 5.6 concurrency libraries (and older) introduced a concurrency
crash in the following OS version ranges
- macOS [12.0, 12.1)
- iOS [15.0, 15.1)
- tvOS [15.0, 15.1)
- watchOS [8.0, 8.2)
Neither older nor newer versions of the listed OSs were affected.
The actual bug involved a miscommunication between the code in the
library that back-deploys fixes (`libswiftCompatibility56.a`) and the
concurrency library in the OS itself. Specifically, the OS versions at
the end of the ranges above introduced voucher support into the
concurrency runtime in the OS (an important feature for performance).
The code in `libswiftCompatibility56.a` that back-ports concurrency fixes
also included the voucher support, which provides a consistent state
for those OS versions and anything newer.
OS versions that predate the introduction of concurrency in the OS are
similarly unaffected, because the embedded
`libswift_Concurrency.dylib` matches that of Swift 5.6, which includes
voucher support.
The OS versions in the affected range include a concurrency library in
the OS that does not manage vouchers. The `libswiftCompatibility56.a`
back-deployed fixes library has code that works on the same data
structures but does manage vouchers, leading to crashes when (say) a
job allocated by the OS version didn't set the "voucher" field, but
the `libswiftCompatibility56.a` tried to free it, essentially a form of
overrelease.
The fix is to teach the voucher-handling code in
`libswiftCompatibility56.a` to first check what version of the OS it
is executing on. If it's in the affected range, all handling of
vouchers is disables so it acts like the concurrency library in the
OS. For both earlier OS versions and later OS versions the
voucher-handler code executes unchanged. This entirely library is
disabled when running on OS versions containing the Swift 5.7
concurrency library (or newer), so those don't need to pay for the
extra check when dealing with vouchers.
Fixes rdar://108837762, rdar://108864311, rdar://108958765.
0 commit comments