[PATCH] MPSAFE/LOOKUP_SHARED cd9660
Paul B. Mahol
onemda at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 23:54:23 UTC 2008
On 12/10/08, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 December 2008 12:22:43 pm Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> On 12/9/08, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > The RRIP stuff is all done in cd9660_vget_internal() under an exclusive
>> > lock.
>> > It could be a property of the ISO image. "PX" holds permissions (owner,
>> > etc.). Do you get the same messages w/o the patch with the same ISO
> image /
>> > CD?
>> >
>> > --
>> > John Baldwin
>> >
>>
>> I searched little for this message and found kern/63446 PR interesting
> comment:
>>
>> Caused by cd9660_vnops.c rev. 1.77. VOP_READDIR returns bogus
>> d_fileno, VFS_VGET on this value returns bogus vnode with zeroed
> attributes.
>>
>> I think that whatever locking is done is done wrong.
>
> That issue isn't a locking issue, it's an issue with VOP_READDIR() using a
> different meaning for i-node numbers than VFS_VGET(), and would happen
> regardless of any Giant or vnode locking.
Yes, I know that that issue/PR doesnt have anything to do with locking.
But displaying bogus messages and still having
functional cd9660 for general use means that something
is not correctly locked.
--
Paul
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