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Date:      Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:20:05 GMT
From:      Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/130735: [patch] pass M_NOWAIT to the malloc() call inside cdreaddvdstructure()
Message-ID:  <200910260920.n9Q9K5uR048430@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/130735; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
To: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>
Cc: bug-followup@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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