41b0baf43cgui: Handle WalletModel::unload asynchronous (João Barbosa)ab31b9d6feFix wallet unload race condition (Russell Yanofsky) Pull request description: This PR consists in two fixes. The first fixes a concurrency issues with `boost::signals2`. The second fixes a wallet model destruction while it's being used. From boost signal documentation at https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_72_0/doc/html/signals2/thread-safety.html: > When a signal is invoked by calling signal::operator(), the invocation first acquires a lock on the signal's mutex. Then it obtains a handle to the signal's slot list and combiner. Next it releases the signal's mutex, before invoking the combiner to iterate through the slot list. This means that `UnregisterValidationInterface` doesn't prevent more calls to that interface. The fix consists in capturing the `shared_ptr<CValidationInterface>` in each internal slot. The GUI bug is fixed by using a `Qt::QueuedConnection` in the `WalletModel::unload` connection. ACKs for top commit: ryanofsky: Code review ACK41b0baf43c. Only change is moving assert as suggested hebasto: ACK41b0baf43c, tested on Linux Mint 19.3. Tree-SHA512: 4f712d8de65bc1214411831250de5dc0a9fd505fb84da5baf9f2cc4d551bc3abffc061616f00afe43dba7525af2cd96c9b54aeead9383145e3b8801f25d85f50
Internal c++ interfaces
The following interfaces are defined here:
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Chain— used by wallet to access blockchain and mempool state. Added in #14437, #14711, #15288, and #10973. -
ChainClient— used by node to start & stopChainclients. Added in #14437. -
Node— used by GUI to start & stop bitcoin node. Added in #10244. -
Handler— returned byhandleEventmethods on interfaces above and used to manage lifetimes of event handlers. -
Init— used by multiprocess code to access interfaces above on startup. Added in #10102.
The interfaces above define boundaries between major components of bitcoin code (node, wallet, and gui), making it possible for them to run in different processes, and be tested, developed, and understood independently. These interfaces are not currently designed to be stable or to be used externally.