UNIX domain sockets MFC's

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 11 11:49:32 UTC 2007


On Tue, 8 May 2007, Robert Watson wrote:

> Right now I am tracking two known issues with UNIX domain sockets in 
> RELENG_6:
>
> - Reported NULL point derference in unp_connect(), which occurs due to the
>  dropping of locks around sonewconn().  This is fixed in HEAD, and I am
>  preparing an MFC of this patch.

The fix for this has now been merged as 1.155.2.22.  As there have been no new 
reports of UNIX domain socket problems in the last couple of days, it sounds 
like the MFC of the last batch of fixes and cleanups has not lead to problems.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge


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