Re: CVS commit: src/sys/fs/tmpfs

[David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:51:50PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
 > Forgot to add that this also fixes a space leak in tmpfs_rename,
 > introduced a couple months ago, which nobody reported as far as I
 > know.  The leak sometimes caused tmpfs_renamerace_dirs to fail with
 > ENOSPC.  The problem was that renaming a directory over an empty
 > directory would fail to decrement the target's link count enough, so
 > that the target would never be released.

There was a thread somewhere a while back (in tech-kern I think) about
refcount leaks in tmpfs. As I recall what changed a couple months ago
was a semi-compensating error somewhere else... or maybe that was
earlier.

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David A. Holland
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