Re: System call munmap returning with the following locks held: Giant

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:11:12 -0500
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:52:56PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:

> I sent this to you on IRC, but for the archives, here's a possible fix.  It 
> looks like vm_object_deallocate() never unlocks Giant if it locks it, and the 
> leak would only happen if mpsafevfs=0 or you are using a non-safe filesystem:

It seems to work; and NFS is non mp-safe, right?

Kris
Received on Wed Jan 18 2006 - 21:11:15 UTC

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