Re: 5.3-RELEASE TODO

From: Colin Percival <colin.percival_at_wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:20:19 -0700
At 15:04 15/07/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>* linprocfs 
>[...]
>       if (pvd->pvd_pid != NO_PID) {
>                if ((proc = pfind(pvd->pvd_pid)) == NULL)
>                        PFS_RETURN (ENOENT);
>-->             vap->va_uid = proc->p_ucred->cr_ruid;
>
>rwatson has a patch that works around this particular null pointer
>deref, but the underlying cause is not addressed.

This looks like the "embryonic processes are added to allproc and
p_hash too soon" bug (cf. kern/68364).  Last I heard, tjr was going
to fix this in the next few days.

Colin Percival
Received on Thu Jul 15 2004 - 20:31:50 UTC

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