Add race condition fix in critical section logic #1248
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This PR addresses a very specific bug with a race condition caused by improper handling of orchestration flow.
The bug exists with this kind of setup in Durable Functions using the dotnet-isolated programming model, and having more than one input to tags:
This is non-supported behavior, as awaiting WhenAll on tasks that are comprised of multiple Durable operations is likely to cause non-determinism exceptions, and also has issues with entity locks in particular as one orchestration should only hold one entity lock at a time.
However, this pattern today throws a NullReferenceException in OrchestrationEntityContext.RecoverLockAfterCall as RecoverLockAfterCall gets called while the lock is still pending due to the race condition, so availableLocks has not been initialized. The fix in this PR causes the orchestrator to instead throw
System.InvalidOperationException: Must not enter another critical section from within a critical section.which is more helpful in identifying the race condition in the tasks.