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time: Eliminate panics from Instant
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#4461
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`Instant::duration_since`, `Instant::elapsed`, and `Instant::sub` may panic. This is especially dangerous when `Instant::now` travels back in time. While this isn't supposed to happen, this behavior is highly platform-dependent (e.g., rust-lang/rust#86470). This change modifies the behavior of `tokio::time::Instant` to prevent this class of panic, as proposed for `std::time::Instant` in rust-lang/rust#89926.
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looks good to me!
/// # Panics | ||
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/// This function will panic if `earlier` is later than `self`. |
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is it maybe worth explicitly noting somewhere that "unlike the std::time::Instant
equivalent, this function does not panic" or similar? not a blocker.
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This seems ok to me.
`Instant::duration_since`, `Instant::elapsed`, and `Instant::sub` may panic. This is especially dangerous when `Instant::now` travels back in time. While this isn't supposed to happen, this behavior is highly platform-dependent (e.g., rust-lang/rust#86470). This change modifies the behavior of `tokio::time::Instant` to prevent this class of panic, as proposed for `std::time::Instant` in rust-lang/rust#89926.
# 1.16.2 (February 15, 2022) This release updates the minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) to 1.49, the `mio` dependency to v0.8, and the (optional) `parking_lot` dependency to v0.12. Additionally, it contains several bug fixes, as well as internal refactoring and performance improvements. ### Fixed - time: prevent panicking in `sleep` with large durations ([#4495]) - time: eliminate potential panics in `Instant` arithmetic on platforms where `Instant::now` is not monotonic ([#4461]) - io: fix `DuplexStream` not participating in cooperative yielding ([#4478]) - rt: fix potential double panic when dropping a `JoinHandle` ([#4430]) ### Changed - update minimum supported Rust version to 1.49 ([#4457]) - update `parking_lot` dependency to v0.12.0 ([#4459]) - update `mio` dependency to v0.8 ([#4449]) - rt: remove an unnecessary lock in the blocking pool ([#4436]) - rt: remove an unnecessary enum in the basic scheduler ([#4462]) - time: use bit manipulation instead of modulo to improve performance ([#4480]) - net: use `std::future::Ready` instead of our own `Ready` future ([#4271]) - replace deprecated `atomic::spin_loop_hint` with `hint::spin_loop` ([#4491]) - fix miri failures in intrusive linked lists ([#4397]) ### Documented - io: add an example for `tokio::process::ChildStdin` ([#4479]) ### Unstable The following changes only apply when building with `--cfg tokio_unstable`: - task: fix missing location information in `tracing` spans generated by `spawn_local` ([#4483]) - task: add `JoinSet` for managing sets of tasks ([#4335]) - metrics: fix compilation error on MIPS ([#4475]) - metrics: fix compilation error on arm32v7 ([#4453]) [#4495]: #4495 [#4461]: #4461 [#4478]: #4478 [#4430]: #4430 [#4457]: #4457 [#4459]: #4459 [#4449]: #4449 [#4462]: #4462 [#4436]: #4436 [#4480]: #4480 [#4271]: #4271 [#4491]: #4491 [#4397]: #4397 [#4479]: #4479 [#4483]: #4483 [#4335]: #4335 [#4475]: #4475 [#4453]: #4453
# 1.17.0 (February 16, 2022) This release updates the minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) to 1.49, the `mio` dependency to v0.8, and the (optional) `parking_lot` dependency to v0.12. Additionally, it contains several bug fixes, as well as internal refactoring and performance improvements. ### Fixed - time: prevent panicking in `sleep` with large durations ([#4495]) - time: eliminate potential panics in `Instant` arithmetic on platforms where `Instant::now` is not monotonic ([#4461]) - io: fix `DuplexStream` not participating in cooperative yielding ([#4478]) - rt: fix potential double panic when dropping a `JoinHandle` ([#4430]) ### Changed - update minimum supported Rust version to 1.49 ([#4457]) - update `parking_lot` dependency to v0.12.0 ([#4459]) - update `mio` dependency to v0.8 ([#4449]) - rt: remove an unnecessary lock in the blocking pool ([#4436]) - rt: remove an unnecessary enum in the basic scheduler ([#4462]) - time: use bit manipulation instead of modulo to improve performance ([#4480]) - net: use `std::future::Ready` instead of our own `Ready` future ([#4271]) - replace deprecated `atomic::spin_loop_hint` with `hint::spin_loop` ([#4491]) - fix miri failures in intrusive linked lists ([#4397]) ### Documented - io: add an example for `tokio::process::ChildStdin` ([#4479]) ### Unstable The following changes only apply when building with `--cfg tokio_unstable`: - task: fix missing location information in `tracing` spans generated by `spawn_local` ([#4483]) - task: add `JoinSet` for managing sets of tasks ([#4335]) - metrics: fix compilation error on MIPS ([#4475]) - metrics: fix compilation error on arm32v7 ([#4453]) [#4495]: #4495 [#4461]: #4461 [#4478]: #4478 [#4430]: #4430 [#4457]: #4457 [#4459]: #4459 [#4449]: #4449 [#4462]: #4462 [#4436]: #4436 [#4480]: #4480 [#4271]: #4271 [#4491]: #4491 [#4397]: #4397 [#4479]: #4479 [#4483]: #4483 [#4335]: #4335 [#4475]: #4475 [#4453]: #4453
`tokio::time::Instant` is a special `Instant` type that supports mocking for tests (via [`tokio::time::pause`][pause]). Furthermore, it [avoids panics][panic] in `Instant` arithmetic. When using `tokio::time::Instant`, there's no need for a dependency on the `instant` crate. This change: * makes the `instant` crate an optional dependency, enabled by default; * uses `tokio::time::Instant` when the `tokio_1` feature is enabled and `instant` is not; and * uses `std::time::Instant` when neither of these features are enabled. The type is exposed publicly via `backoff::Instant` as a convenience. This change is backwards-compatible and does not change the default behavior. [pause]: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/time/fn.pause.html [panic]: tokio-rs/tokio#4461 Signed-off-by: Oliver Gould <[email protected]>
Motivation
Instant::duration_since
,Instant::elapsed
, andInstant::sub
maypanic. This is especially dangerous when
Instant::now
travels back intime. While this isn't supposed to happen, this behavior is highly
platform-dependent (e.g., rust-lang/rust#86470).
Solution
This change modifies the behavior of
tokio::time::Instant
to preventthis class of panic, as proposed for
std::time::Instant
inrust-lang/rust#89926.
@carllerche Suggested we may be able to make these changes to
tokio::time::Instant
to avoidstd::time::Instant
bugs. I've attempted to make similar changes in a variety of ecosystem projects (hyperium/hyper#2746, etc); but it seems higher-leverage to modify tokio to avoid this problem so that ecosystem projects can rely on Tokio'sInstant
type safely.