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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:24:44 +0300
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r277489 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <20150121182444.GG15484@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201501211632.t0LGWtOR098070@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201501211632.t0LGWtOR098070@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 04:32:55PM +0000, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
K> Author: kib
K> Date: Wed Jan 21 16:32:54 2015
K> New Revision: 277489
K> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/277489
K> 
K> Log:
K>   Do not assert that the new pipepair mutex is not initialized.  The
K>   backing memory contains garbage and might trigger the assertion.

I have touched dozen of places in kernel where I do explicit M_ZERO on
allocation just to satisfy later assertion in the mtx_init. Is the
correct fix to use MTX_NEW?

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.



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