ComplexCancellable: Fix race condition #597
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I discovered a race condition while investigating a sporadic test failure in the client:
It turned out that two threads are somehow racing when calling
ComplexCancellable.setDependency():The implementation of
setDependencywas performing a single CAS and interpreting failure to mean that the mark bit had been set -- in other words, that another thread had calledcancel(), rather thansetDependency().This change corrects the implementation of
setDependencyby having it run the CAS in a loop. On each update failure, it checks if the mark bit has been set (nothing ever unsets it). If so, it callsdependency.cancel()and returns; else, it just tries again.