From fcc64792aebafd659d4d20387b072e53c1f9e608 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 13:00:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] child_process: guard against race condition

It is possible that the internal handleMessage() might try to send to
a channel that has been closed. The result can be an AssertionError.
Guard against this.

Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4205
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5153
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
---
 lib/child_process.js                        |  3 ++
 test/simple/test-cluster-disconnect-race.js | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 test/simple/test-cluster-disconnect-race.js

diff --git a/lib/child_process.js b/lib/child_process.js
index 9bb64e64b66cf3..0c360e082f4269 100644
--- a/lib/child_process.js
+++ b/lib/child_process.js
@@ -313,6 +313,9 @@ function getSocketList(type, slave, key) {
 
 var INTERNAL_PREFIX = 'NODE_';
 function handleMessage(target, message, handle) {
+  if (!target._channel)
+    return;
+
   var eventName = 'message';
   if (!util.isNull(message) &&
       util.isObject(message) &&
diff --git a/test/simple/test-cluster-disconnect-race.js b/test/simple/test-cluster-disconnect-race.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..fdf53b967c92bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/simple/test-cluster-disconnect-race.js
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+'use strict';
+
+// This code triggers an AssertionError on Linux in Node.js 5.3.0 and earlier.
+// Ref: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4205
+
+var common = require('../common');
+var assert = require('assert');
+var net = require('net');
+var cluster = require('cluster');
+cluster.schedulingPolicy = cluster.SCHED_NONE;
+
+if (cluster.isMaster) {
+  var worker1, worker2;
+
+  worker1 = cluster.fork();
+  worker1.on('message', common.mustCall(function() {
+    worker2 = cluster.fork();
+    worker1.disconnect();
+    worker2.on('online', common.mustCall(worker2.disconnect));
+  }, 2));
+
+  cluster.on('exit', function(worker, code) {
+    assert.strictEqual(code, 0, 'worker exited with error');
+  });
+
+  return;
+}
+
+var server = net.createServer();
+
+server.listen(common.PORT, function retry() {
+  process.send('listening');
+  process.send('listening');
+});