False Negative: DoubleCheckedLockingWithInitRace.ql misses initialization races once the double-checked pattern is split across helpers or early returns.
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# False Negative: DoubleCheckedLockingWithInitRace.ql misses initialization races once the double-checked pattern is split across helpers or early returns.
Version
codeql 2.24.3
## Checker
- Checker id: `Likely Bugs/Concurrency/DoubleCheckedLockingWithInitRace.ql`
- Checker description: This checker detects a potential race condition in double-checked locking patterns where a field assignment inside a synchronized block may be visible to other threads before subsequent side-effect statements are executed.
## Description of the false negative
These samples still publish `f` before the rest of the initialization work is complete. One variant moves the synchronized initialization into a helper, and the other rewrites the fast path as an early return, but the initialization race is the same.
## Affected test cases
### `PosCase1_Var3.java`
The helper call only hides the same double-checked-locking race where publication happens before later side effects.
```java
// Double-checked locking with assignment to another field after the field assignment should be flagged as potential race condition.
package scensct.var.pos;
public class PosCase1_Var3 {
private Object f;
private Object otherField;
public Object getF() {
if (f == null) {
initField();
}
return f;
}
private void initField() {
synchronized (this) {
if (f == null) {
f = new Object();
otherField = new Object();
}
}
}
}
```
### `PosCase1_Var5.java`
This still publishes the initialized object before a later field assignment completes, which is the race the query is meant to catch.
```java
// Double-checked locking with assignment to another field after the field assignment should be flagged as potential race condition.
package scensct.var.pos;
public class PosCase1_Var5 {
private Object f;
private Object otherField;
public Object getF() {
if (f != null) {
return f;
}
synchronized (this) {
if (f == null) {
f = new Object();
otherField = new Object();
}
return f;
}
}
}
```
## Cause analysis
The query appears too tied to one inline statement ordering pattern for double-checked initialization. Once the synchronized block is extracted into a helper or the fast path is expressed as an early return, it stops recognizing that `f` becomes visible before the remaining side effects complete.
That is a real concurrency gap. Initialization races often survive exactly this kind of refactoring.
## References
None known.
コントリビューションガイド
調査の方向性
Start by reading Likely Bugs/Concurrency/DoubleCheckedLockingWithInitRace.ql and the PosCase1_Var3.java and PosCase1_Var5.java examples. Trace how the query handles helper calls and early returns, then verify that both initialization-race variants are flagged.
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