From 6241dfe961555b0ff1c3bcb922f19fb3b8540481 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: brectanus <brectanus@9017d574-64ec-4062-9424-5e00b32a252b>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 20:01:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed XML multithreading crash.  See #501.

---
 CHANGES               | 3 +++
 apache2/modsecurity.c | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 84c30e58..f303b941 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 30 May 2008 - trunk
 -------------------
 
+* Fixed issue with multithreaded servers where concurrent XML processing
+  could crash the web server (at least under Windows).
+
 * Fixed blocking in phase 3.
 
 * Persistent counter updates are now atomic.
diff --git a/apache2/modsecurity.c b/apache2/modsecurity.c
index 4ec77d8e..81abecab 100644
--- a/apache2/modsecurity.c
+++ b/apache2/modsecurity.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include "modsecurity.h"
 #include "msc_parsers.h"
 #include "msc_util.h"
+#include "msc_xml.h"
 
 modsec_build_type_rec DSOLOCAL modsec_build_type[] = {
     { "-dev", 1 },     /* Development build */
@@ -121,6 +122,9 @@ int modsecurity_init(msc_engine *msce, apr_pool_t *mp) {
  * Performs per-child (new process) initialisation.
  */
 void modsecurity_child_init(msc_engine *msce) {
+    /* Need to call this once per process before any other XML calls. */
+    xmlInitParser();
+
     if (msce->auditlog_lock != NULL) {
         apr_status_t rc = apr_global_mutex_child_init(&msce->auditlog_lock, NULL, msce->mp);
         if (rc != APR_SUCCESS) {