Double-checked locking

Reports double-checked locking.

Double-checked locking tries to initialize a field on demand and in a thread-safe manner, while avoiding the cost of synchronization. Unfortunately it is not thread-safe when used on a field that is not declared volatile. When using Java 1.4 or earlier, double-checked locking doesn't work even with a volatile field. Read the article linked above for a detailed explanation of the problem.

Example of incorrect double-checked locking:

  class Foo {
    private Helper helper = null;
    public Helper getHelper() {
      if (helper == null)
        synchronized(this) {
          if (helper == null) helper = new Helper();
        }
        return helper;
      }
    }
    // other functions and members...
  }

Locating this inspection

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DoubleCheckedLocking

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Availability

By default bundled with: IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1, Qodana for JVM 2024.1,
Can be installed with plugin: Java, 241.18072

Last modified: 18 June 2024