Simultaneous accesses to 0x1c0a7f0f8, but modification requires exclusive access error on Xcode 9 beta 4

Question

my project uses both Objective-C and Swift code. When a user logs in, it calls a set of apis for user preference, I have a DataCoordinator.swift class which schedules the API operation and I make this calls from UserDetailViewController.m class to load user preferences. This use to work fine before I migrated my code to Swift 4 using Xcode 9 beta 4. Now when I login it crashes by giving me this error in my DataCoordinator class. Below is a sample of my DataCoordinator and Viewcontroller class.

DataCoordinator.swift

import UIKit

@objcMembers

class DataCoordinator: NSObject {

    //MARK:- Private
    fileprivate var user = myDataStore.sharedInstance().user
    fileprivate var preferenceFetchOperations = [FetchOperation]()

    fileprivate func scheduleFetchOperation(_ operation:FetchOperation, inFetchOperations operations:inout [FetchOperation]) {
        guard  operations.index(of: operation) == nil else { return }
        operations.append(operation)
    }

    fileprivate func completeFetchOperation(_ fetchOperation:FetchOperation, withError error:Error?, andCompletionHandler handler:@escaping FetchCompletionHandler) {

        func removeOperation(_ operation:FetchOperation, fromOperations operations:inout [FetchOperation]) {
            if operations.count > 0 {
                operations.remove(at: operations.index(of: fetchOperation)!)                 
              handler(error)
            }
        }

        if preferenceFetchOperations.contains(fetchOperation) {
            removeOperation(fetchOperation, fromOperations: &preferenceFetchOperations)
        }

    }

    fileprivate func schedulePreferencesFetchOperation(_ serviceName:String, fetch:@escaping FetchOperationBlock){
        let operation = FetchOperation(name: serviceName, fetch: fetch);
        scheduleFetchOperation(operation, inFetchOperations: &preferenceFetchOperations)
    }


    fileprivate func runOperationsIn(_ fetchOperations:inout [FetchOperation]) {
        for  var operation in fetchOperations {
            guard operation.isActivated == false else { continue }
            operation.isActivated = true
            operation.execute()
        }
    }


    //MARK:- Non-Private
    typealias FetchCompletionHandler = (_ error:Error?)->Void

    var numberOfPreferencesFetchCalls:Int {
        get { return preferenceFetchOperations.count }
    }


    // MARK: -
    func fetchPreferences(_ completionHandler:@escaping FetchCompletionHandler) -> Void {
        defer {
            runOperationsIn(&preferenceFetchOperations)
        }

        schedulePreferencesFetchOperation("com.fetchPreferences.type1") {[unowned self] (operation:FetchOperation) in
            WebServiceManager.getType1Detail(for: user) {[unowned self] (error) in
                self.completeFetchOperation(operation,  withError: error, andCompletionHandler: completionHandler)
            }

        }

        schedulePreferencesFetchOperation("com.fetchPreferences.type2") {[unowned self] (operation:FetchOperation) in
            WebServiceManager.getType2Detail(for: user) {[unowned self] (error) in
                self.completeFetchOperation(operation,  withError: error, andCompletionHandler: completionHandler)
            }

        }

        schedulePreferencesFetchOperation("com.fetchPreferences.type3") {[unowned self] (operation:FetchOperation) in
            WebServiceManager.getType3Detail(for: user) {[unowned self] (error) in
                self.completeFetchOperation(operation,  withError: error, andCompletionHandler: completionHandler)
            }

        }

        schedulePreferencesFetchOperation("com.fetchPreferences.type4") {[unowned self] (operation:FetchOperation) in
            WebServiceManager.getType4Detail(for: user) {[unowned self] (error) in
                self.completeFetchOperation(operation,  withError: error, andCompletionHandler: completionHandler)
            }

        }
    }

}


// MARK:- Fetch Operation Struct
private typealias FetchOperationBlock = (_ operation:FetchOperation)->Void

private struct FetchOperation:Hashable {
    fileprivate var runToken = 0
    fileprivate let fetchBlock:FetchOperationBlock

    let name:String!
    var isActivated:Bool {
        get {
            return runToken == 0 ? false : true
        }

        mutating set {
            if runToken == 0 && newValue == true {
                runToken = 1
            }
        }
    }

    fileprivate var hashValue: Int {
        get {
            return name.hashValue
        }
    }

    func execute() -> Void {
        fetchBlock(self)
    }

    init (name:String, fetch:@escaping FetchOperationBlock) {
        self.name = name
        self.fetchBlock = fetch
    }
}
private func ==(lhs: FetchOperation, rhs: FetchOperation) -> Bool {
    return lhs.hashValue == rhs.hashValue
}

//This is how I call it in my viewcontrollers viewDidLoad method

__weak UserDetailViewController *weakSelf = self;
[self.dataCoordinator fetchPreferences:^(NSError * _Nullable error) {
                if (error == nil) {
                    [weakSelf didFetchPrefrences];
                }
                else {
                    // handle error
                }
            }];

//completion response
- (void)didFetchPrefrences {

    //when api calls complete load data
    if (self.dataCoordinator.numberOfPreferencesFetchCalls == 0) {

        //Load details

     }

}

I'm not sure how to proceed on this, I saw a bug report at https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-5119 but it seems to be fixed in Xcode 9 beta 3. Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

I think this 'bug' may be a Swift 4 'feature', specifically something they call 'Exclusive access to Memory'.

Check out this WWDC video. Around the 50 minute mark, the long-haired speaker explains it.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/402/?time=233

You could try turning the thread sanitizer off in your scheme settings if you're happy to ignore it. However, the debugger is trying to tell you about a subtle threading issue so it's probably a better use of your time to try to figure out why you've got something writing to your array at the same time it's being read from.