cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_cache.c

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Tue Mar 29 02:21:57 PST 2005


On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:58:41AM +0000, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>   Log:
>    - Invalidate the childrens v_dd pointers when we cache_purge() a directory.
>      Otherwise the stale pointer may be accessed after a vnode is freed.

I guess this has no impact on how likely we are to have a call to
realpath work because in the old version the generation number of
the vnode would have changed anyway?

	David.


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