Re: is_sk locking in sk_attach

From: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists_at_lists.zabbadoz.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:53:43 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Doug White wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>
> > there had been some discussion lately about if_sk and attach locking.
> > compiled if_sk as module on amd64 and kldloading started a race with
> > follwoing output:
>
> If you have unpatched sk sources, the locking is entirely wrong. You
> _will_ get witness warnings.  I have a basic patch that gets rid of most

with my attach patch not yet, but I had seen those with my old kernel
including a LOR.

> of them, and I think bms is working on a more complete lockdown.  I posted
> my patch to -current, but I can't guarantee its entirely correct :)

I had thought it got comitted already. Will import it into my
local tree then. Thanks.

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Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
Received on Mon Jul 12 2004 - 04:00:20 UTC

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