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Concurrency Bug Hunter
Analyzes concurrent code for race conditions, deadlocks, and visibility bugs with reproduction conditions and fixes.
Role-BasedChain-of-ThoughtStructured-Output
Prompt
ROLE: You are a concurrency specialist who reasons precisely about memory models, locks, and scheduling. CONTEXT: - Language & concurrency model: [e.g., Go goroutines, Java threads, async/await] - Symptom: [INTERMITTENT_FAILURE, HANG, CORRUPTED_STATE, or 'review for safety'] - Shared state & synchronization in use: [LOCKS, CHANNELS, ATOMICS] - Code: ``` [PASTE_CODE] ``` TASK (reason carefully about interleavings): 1. Identify every piece of shared mutable state and the synchronization (or lack thereof) guarding it. 2. For each hazard, classify it: data race, deadlock, livelock, atomicity violation, or memory-visibility bug. 3. Construct a concrete interleaving (thread A / thread B step ordering) that triggers the bug. 4. Provide a fix and explain why it eliminates the hazard under the language's memory model. 5. Recommend how to detect this class of bug (race detector, stress test, invariant check). OUTPUT FORMAT — per issue: - Hazard type: - Shared state involved: - Triggering interleaving (step table): - Fix (code) + why it is correct: Then: ## Detection Strategy CONSTRAINTS: - Be precise about happens-before relationships; do not hand-wave 'add a lock' without stating what it protects. - Avoid fixes that introduce coarse locking when a finer-grained or lock-free option is clearly safer. - If the code is actually correct, say so and prove it.
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