libevent/libevent — pull request #173 by vjpai (2014-09-22 19:24:13+00:00)
Title: Fix race caused by event_active

There is a race between manual event_active and natural event activation. If both happen at the same time on the same FD, they would both be protected by the same event base lock except for 1 LoC where the fields of struct event are read without any kind of lock. This commit does those reads into local variables inside the lock and then invokes the callback with those local arguments outside the lock. In 2.0-stable, none of this is inside the lock; in HEAD, only the callback is read inside the lock. This gets the callback and all 3 arguments inside the lock before calling it outside the lock.