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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:30:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_prot.c
Message-ID:  <200202271830.g1RIU1j44792@freefall.freebsd.org>

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jhb         2002/02/27 10:30:01 PST

  Modified files:
    sys/kern             kern_prot.c 
  Log:
  Temporarily lock Giant while we update td_ucred.  The proc lock doesn't
  fully protect p_ucred yet so Giant is needed until all the p_ucred
  locking is done.  This is the original reason td_ucred was not used
  immediately after its addition.  Unfortunately, not using td_ucred is
  not enough to avoid problems.  Since p_ucred could be stale, we could
  actually be dereferencing a stale pointer to dink with the refcount, so
  we really need Giant to avoid foot-shooting.  This allows td_ucred to
  be safely used as well.
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.139     +6 -6      src/sys/kern/kern_prot.c

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