On 12 Nov, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Peter Holm wrote: > >> GENERIC HEAD from Nov 11 08:05 UTC >> http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/cons87.html > > This looks like a bug in the pipe code where-in a partially initialized > pipe is free'd due to memory allocation problems (hitting a resource > limit). pipeclose() is called when pipe_create() fails on one of the two > pipe endpoints, but it looks like pipeclose() is unprepared for the > eventuality that this is the case, as it attempts to generate wakeup > events on the pipe endpoint using pipeselwakeup(), which is not the right > thing to do while the pipe is not yet initialized. Maybe we need a > special pipeclose() tear-down path that doesn't assume the pipe has > already been fully initialized? Sounds similar to what I did in the fifo open/close code, though I seem to recall that the motivation was related to locking.Received on Fri Nov 12 2004 - 16:42:22 UTC
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