Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:32:34 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Errata Notice: FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs Message-ID: <20050105233234.GB69661@bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu>
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FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: NFS Server may panic under certain load patterns
Category: core
Module: nfsserver
Announced: 2005-01-05
Credits: Robert Watson
Affects: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE
Corrected: 2005-01-05 03:35:00 UTC
I. Background
The Network File System (NFS) allows a system to share directories and files
with others over a network. By using this, users and programs can access
files on remote systems almost as if they were local files.
II. Problem Description
Due to a bug in nfsrv_create() a call to nfsrv_access() might be made
while holding the NFS server mutex, which results in kernel panics under
certain load patterns.
III. Impact
NFS servers that encountered the load pattern would crash and reboot.
IV. Solution
Do one of the following to update the source tree:
1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to the RELENG_5_3 errata branch dated
after the correction date using cvsup(1) or cvs(1). This is the
preferred method.
2) Obtain the updated files using the cvsweb interface. Cvsweb is a
Web interface to the CVS repository. The URL to the general
interface is "http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/". You can
obtain any of the source files for the RELENG_5_3 branch by going
to the src directory ("http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src")
and then selecting the "RELENG_5_3" branch tag. With the branch
tag set navigate to the files listed below in the "Correction
details" section and download them, making sure you get the correct
revision numbers. Copy the downloaded files into your /usr/src tree.
If using the second procedure you should make sure you have used that
same procedure to download all previous Errata Notices and Security
Advisories. We strongly discourage this procedure due to the problems
that may be caused by not doing that - using the first procedure takes
care of making sure all updates get applied.
Then follow the normal procedures for rebuilding/reinstalling the kernel.
Details about rebuilding/reinstalling are available here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html
V. Correction details
The following list contains the revision numbers of each file that was
corrected in FreeBSD.
Branch Revision
Path
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RELENG_5_3
Revision Changes Path
1.342.2.13.2.6 +5 -0 src/UPDATING
1.62.2.15.2.8 +1 -1 src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
1.147.2.1.2.2 +52 -38 src/sys/nfsserver/nfs_serv.c
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