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7777f2a4bb1f9d843bc50a4e35085cfbb2808780 miner: Avoid stack-use-after-return in validationinterface (MarcoFalke)
fa5ceb25fce2200edf6b8ebfa6d4f01ed6774b95 test: Remove UninterruptibleSleep from test and replace it by SyncWithValidationInterfaceQueue (MarcoFalke)
fa770ce7fe67685c43780e219d8232efbee0bb8e validationinterface: Rework documentation, Rename pwalletIn to callbacks (MarcoFalke)
fab6d060ce5f580db538070beec1c5518c8c777c test: Add unregister_validation_interface_race test (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
When a validationinterface has itself unregistered in one thread, but is about to get executed in another thread [1], there is a race:
* The validationinterface destructing itself
* The validationinterface getting dereferenced for execution
[1] 64139803f1/src/validationinterface.cpp (L82-L83)
This happens in the miner. More generally it happens everywhere where at least one thread is generating notifications and another one is unregistering a validationinterface.
This issue has been fixed in commit ab31b9d6fe7b39713682e3f52d11238dbe042c16, but the fix has not been applied to the miner.
Example where this happened in practice: https://travis-ci.org/github/bitcoin/bitcoin/jobs/675322230#L4414
ACKs for top commit:
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Code review ACK 7777f2a4bb1f9d843bc50a4e35085cfbb2808780.
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