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[PR #9618] Add some read and write locks around pattern tree manipulation #27666

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opened 2026-01-31 09:23:21 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Original Pull Request: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/9618

State: closed
Merged: Yes

We have been seeing some crashes (#9410) originating from a
use-after-free or a double-free in the renderer. The renderer is
iterating over the dirty rects from the render engine¹ and the rect list
is being freed out from under it.

Things like this are usually the result of somebody manipulating the
renderer's state outside of lock.

Therefore, this pull request introduces some targeted locking fixes
around manipulation of the pattern buffer (which, in turn, changes the
renderer state.)

¹ This was not a problem until #8621, which made the renderer return a
span instead of a copy for the list of dirty rects.

Validation

I ran Terminal under App Verifier, and introduced a manul delay (under
lock) in the renderer such that the invalid map would definitely have
been invalidated between the renderer taking the lock and the renderer
handling the frame. AppVerif failed us without these locking changes,
and did not do so once they were introduced.

Closes #9410.

**Original Pull Request:** https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/9618 **State:** closed **Merged:** Yes --- We have been seeing some crashes (#9410) originating from a use-after-free or a double-free in the renderer. The renderer is iterating over the dirty rects from the render engine¹ and the rect list is being freed out from under it. Things like this are usually the result of somebody manipulating the renderer's state outside of lock. Therefore, this pull request introduces some targeted locking fixes around manipulation of the pattern buffer (which, in turn, changes the renderer state.) ¹ This was not a problem until #8621, which made the renderer return a span instead of a copy for the list of dirty rects. ## Validation I ran Terminal under App Verifier, and introduced a manul delay (under lock) in the renderer such that the invalid map would definitely have been invalidated between the renderer taking the lock and the renderer handling the frame. AppVerif failed us without these locking changes, and did not do so once they were introduced. Closes #9410.
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