Fix race condition in reading the dropped spans number

As any race condition this should be consider an undefined behavior, and a patch release should be done. Signed-off-by: Bogdan Drutu <bogdandrutu@gmail.com>
open-telemetry · Feb 16, 2022 · fb82c93 · fb82c93
1 parent cd21df4
commit fb82c93
Show file tree

Hide file tree

Showing 2 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletion.
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix race condition in reading the dropped spans number (#2615)
+
 ## [1.4.0] - 2022-02-11
 
 ### Added

diff --git a/sdk/trace/batch_span_processor.go b/sdk/trace/batch_span_processor.go
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ func (bsp *batchSpanProcessor) exportSpans(ctx context.Context) error {
 	}
 
 	if l := len(bsp.batch); l > 0 {
-		global.Debug("exporting spans", "count", len(bsp.batch), "dropped", bsp.dropped)
+		global.Debug("exporting spans", "count", len(bsp.batch), "dropped", atomic.LoadUint32(&bsp.dropped))
 		err := bsp.e.ExportSpans(ctx, bsp.batch)
 
 		// A new batch is always created after exporting, even if the batch failed to be exported.