Index: src/btmutex.c ================================================================== --- src/btmutex.c +++ src/btmutex.c @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ ** May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others. ** May you share freely, never taking more than you give. ** ************************************************************************* ** -** $Id: btmutex.c,v 1.16 2009/07/17 11:44:07 drh Exp $ +** $Id: btmutex.c,v 1.17 2009/07/20 12:33:33 drh Exp $ ** ** This file contains code used to implement mutexes on Btree objects. ** This code really belongs in btree.c. But btree.c is getting too ** big and we want to break it down some. This packaged seemed like ** a good breakout. @@ -195,11 +195,13 @@ if( p && p->sharable ){ p->wantToLock++; if( !p->locked ){ assert( p->wantToLock==1 ); while( p->pPrev ) p = p->pPrev; - while( p->locked && p->pNext ) p = p->pNext; + /* Reason for ALWAYS: There must be at least on unlocked Btree in + ** the chain. Otherwise the !p->locked test above would have failed */ + while( p->locked && ALWAYS(p->pNext) ) p = p->pNext; for(pLater = p->pNext; pLater; pLater=pLater->pNext){ if( pLater->locked ){ unlockBtreeMutex(pLater); } }