Concurrency bug..

OK, spot the bug in the code:


    object m_lockObject = new object();
    object[] m_collection = null;

    public object[] GetCollection() {
        lock (m_lockObject) {
            if (m_collection != null) {
                // already initialized
                return m_collection;
            }
            else {
                // needs to be initialized
                m_collection = new object[5];
                initialize(m_collection);
                return m_collection;
            }      
        }
    }

.. the bug is that a second call could come after m_collection is new'd up, but before it's initialized, resulting in an empty collection being returned.  The first call works, the second call sometimes fails, and the third call onwards likely succeeds.  Bugs like this can be a pain to track down as, depending on what these objects do, the symptoms will appear really strange...