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document potential memory leak in unbounded channel
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ibraheemdev authored Feb 29, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -547,6 +547,9 @@ impl<T> Channel<T> {
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let mut head = self.head.index.load(Ordering::Acquire);
// the channel may be uninitialized, so we have to swap to avoid overwriting any sender's attempts
// to initalize the first block before noticing that the receivers disconnected. late allocations
// will be deallocated by the sender in Drop
let mut block = self.head.block.swap(ptr::null_mut(), Ordering::AcqRel);

// If we're going to be dropping messages we need to synchronize with initialization
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