Possible Dead lock in the destructor of QObject

The problem was that we were locking a mutex that was global to thread
to remove posted events associated with a QObject from the posted event
list. We were also immediately deleting those events. If that triggers
the deletion of another QObject, you would then trigger a dead-lock.

Task-number: 259514
Reviewed-by: brad
Reviewed-by: ogoffart

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/corelib/kernel/qcoreapplication_p.h b/src/corelib/kernel/qcoreapplication_p.h
index bb94cbb..ef776c7 100644
--- a/src/corelib/kernel/qcoreapplication_p.h
+++ b/src/corelib/kernel/qcoreapplication_p.h
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ public:
     static QThread *mainThread();
     static bool checkInstance(const char *method);
     static void sendPostedEvents(QObject *receiver, int event_type, QThreadData *data);
-    static void removePostedEvents_unlocked(QObject *receiver, int type, QThreadData *data);
 
 #if !defined (QT_NO_DEBUG) || defined (QT_MAC_FRAMEWORK_BUILD)
     void checkReceiverThread(QObject *receiver);