Bug 16229: Deep copy on first L2 fetch

When a value exists in L2 cache but not in L1 cache, it should be deep
copied if needed (i.e. not a scalar). Otherwise the calling code is able
to modify the value in cache.
Note that is theoretical, it's possible that no code does that.

Signed-off-by: Jacek Ablewicz <abl@biblos.pk.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@unc.edu.ar>

Signed-off-by: Brendan Gallagher <bredan@bywatersolutions.com>
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Jonathan Druart 2016-04-08 13:08:55 +01:00 committed by Brendan Gallagher
parent 8ec54c86fe
commit 956dc953b5
2 changed files with 9 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -335,6 +335,8 @@ sub get_from_cache {
# Otherwise the L1 cache won't ever be populated
$L1_cache{$key} = $value;
$value = clone $value if ref $L1_cache{$key} and not $unsafe;
return $value;
}

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@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
use Modern::Perl;
use Test::More tests => 37;
use Test::More tests => 38;
my $destructorcount = 0;
@ -181,6 +181,12 @@ SKIP: {
$item_from_cache = $cache->get_from_cache('test_deep_copy_array');
@$item_from_cache = qw( another array ref );
is_deeply( $cache->get_from_cache('test_deep_copy_array'), [ qw ( an array ref ) ], 'An array will be deep copied');
$cache->flush_L1_cache();
$item_from_cache = $cache->get_from_cache('test_deep_copy_array');
@$item_from_cache = qw( another array ref );
is_deeply( $cache->get_from_cache('test_deep_copy_array'), [ qw ( an array ref ) ], 'An array will be deep copied even it is the first fetch from L2');
$item_from_cache = $cache->get_from_cache('test_deep_copy_array', { unsafe => 1 });
@$item_from_cache = qw( another array ref );
is_deeply( $cache->get_from_cache('test_deep_copy_array'), [ qw ( another array ref ) ], 'An array will not be deep copied if the unsafe flag is set');