Handle RwLock reader count overflow

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/unix/rwlock.rs b/src/libstd/sys/unix/rwlock.rs
index fbd4e1d1208..08aeb5fb8cc 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/unix/rwlock.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/unix/rwlock.rs
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ impl RWLock {
         // the implementation allows recursive locking. The POSIX standard
         // doesn't require recursivly locking a rwlock to deadlock, but we can't
         // allow that because it could lead to aliasing issues.
-        if r == libc::EDEADLK || *self.write_locked.get() {
+        if r == libc::EAGAIN {
+            panic!("rwlock maximum reader count exceeded");
+        } else if r == libc::EDEADLK || *self.write_locked.get() {
             if r == 0 {
                 self.raw_unlock();
             }