From 6e5cda6a52c1b63d741cbe5aa8736441424580e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Lopez <seniorlopez@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:27:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] avoid potential race-condition with closing a connection

---
 ext/mysql2/client.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ext/mysql2/client.c b/ext/mysql2/client.c
index 8680521..fdf55cd 100644
--- a/ext/mysql2/client.c
+++ b/ext/mysql2/client.c
@@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ static void rb_mysql_client_free(void * ptr) {
 static VALUE nogvl_close(void * ptr) {
   mysql_client_wrapper *wrapper = ptr;
   if (!wrapper->closed) {
-    mysql_close(wrapper->client);
     wrapper->closed = 1;
+    mysql_close(wrapper->client);
     if (!wrapper->freed) {
       free(wrapper->client);
     }