log4j-core/src/main/java/org/apache/logging/log4j/core/async/DefaultAsyncQueueFullPolicy.java

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package org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.Level;

/**
 * Default router: enqueue the event for asynchronous logging in the background thread, unless the current thread is the
 * background thread and the queue is full (enqueueing would cause a deadlock). In that case send the event directly to
 * the appender (in the current thread).
 */
public class DefaultAsyncQueueFullPolicy implements AsyncQueueFullPolicy {
    @Override
    public EventRoute getRoute(final long backgroundThreadId, final Level level) {

        // LOG4J2-471: prevent deadlock when RingBuffer is full and object
        // being logged calls Logger.log() from its toString() method
        if (Thread.currentThread().getId() == backgroundThreadId) {
            return EventRoute.SYNCHRONOUS;
        }
        return EventRoute.ENQUEUE;
    }
}