Lifetime of keys

[Robert Fleischman]

Simple question about key lifetime.

I do a:

ck_ht_set_spmc()  with new data.  It returns the old data that got replaced in the ck_ht_entry_t that was provided.

Can I immediately delete the "key" (MODE_BYTESTRING of course)?   My thought is:  I provided them, I allocated them, as long as I am not using them, I can delete them!

However, I noticed valgrind got upset about concurrent read's to those bytes after I deleted them:

ck_ht_get_spmc():

> ==32338== Thread 11:

> ==32338== Invalid read of size 1

> ==32338==    at 0x4C30C09: __memcmp_sse4_1 (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)

> ==32338==    by 0x4519A9: ck_ht_map_probe_rd (in ...)

> ==32338==    by 0x45237E: ck_ht_get_spmc (in ...)

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It seems to me:

- I called "set_spmc()", it did the "replace" and returned to me the "old values"

- I cleaned those up with "delete/free"

- A later get_spmc() seems to be looking at that memory!!!

That seems bad/wrong.

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Weird that valgrind only complains about 1 BYTE!

Is it confused?

-Rob