Re: Re-entering Release() - strange crash

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:06:22 -0400
Message-ID:
<#rl9xaKMKHA.3588@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
Igor R. <igor.rubinov@gmail.com> wrote:

class ATL_NO_VTABLE CRoot :
public CComObjectRootEx<CComSingleThreadModel>,
public CComCoClass<CRoot, &CLSID_Root>,
public IDispatchImpl<IRoot, &IID_IRoot, &LIBID_ATLRefcountLib, 1, 0>
{
public:
 CRoot() : creatingInstance_(false)
 {
 }

DECLARE_REGISTRY_RESOURCEID(IDR_ROOT)

DECLARE_NOT_AGGREGATABLE(CRoot)

BEGIN_COM_MAP(CRoot)
 COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(IRoot)
 COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(IDispatch)
END_COM_MAP()

DECLARE_PROTECT_FINAL_CONSTRUCT()

HRESULT FinalConstruct()
{
 init();
 return S_OK;
}

ULONG InternalAddRef()
{
 if (m_dwRef == 0)
   creatingInstance_ = true;
 return CComObjectRootEx::InternalAddRef();
}

ULONG InternalRelease()
{
 ULONG ref = CComObjectRootEx::InternalRelease();
 if (ref == 1 && holder_)
 {
   if (creatingInstance_)
     creatingInstance_ = false;
   else
     release();
 }
 return ref;
}


I don't understand the significance of creatingInstance_ flag here. To
my untrained eye, it appears that, because of that flag, your code would
never take the branch where it calls release().

private:
void init()
{
 AddRef();
 holder_.reset(this, std::tr1::mem_fn(&CRoot::Release));
}

void release()
{
 holder_.reset();
}


Since release() is never called, holder_ calls CRoot::Release() when
it's destroyed, which happens in CRoot's destructor. Hence the recursive
call you are observing.
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