Subject: Re: kern/36610 (nfs mutex bug causes crash)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: David Holland <dholland@eecs.harvard.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/12/2007 20:25:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/36610; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: dholland@eecs.harvard.edu (David Holland)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, rmind@netbsd.org,
dholland@eecs.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: kern/36610 (nfs mutex bug causes crash)
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:41:35 -0400 (EDT)
> Problem found and fix provided by David A. Holland, PR/36610.
> Actually, relock is not needed here, and mutex would be unlocked
> only on nfs_sigintr() fail case.
I assumed from the context that it wasn't good to call nfs_sigintr
holding the mutex, so I preserved that behavior in my patch... oh
well, guess I should have checked more deeply. :-/
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- David A. Holland / dholland@eecs.harvard.edu