kern/130735: [patch] pass M_NOWAIT to the malloc() call inside
cdreaddvdstructure()
Jaakko Heinonen
jh at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 26 09:20:05 UTC 2009
The following reply was made to PR kern/130735; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh at FreeBSD.org>
To: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/130735: [patch] pass M_NOWAIT to the malloc() call inside
cdreaddvdstructure()
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:19:20 +0200
Hi,
On 2009-10-24, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> I am feeling myself lucky today -- may be someone will be able
> to look at this PR and fix the bad malloc() invocation?
I have been looking at this. The same problem also exists in
cdreportkey() and cdsendkey(). I think that it's better to drop periph
lock while doing M_WAITOK malloc instead of using M_NOWAIT. Could you
test and look at this patch:
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~jh3/patches/scsi_cd-M_WAITOK-fixes.diff
--
Jaakko
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