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Date:      Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:18:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_exec.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020914231801.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209141855.g8EItBC9035815@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 14-Sep-2002 Nate Lawson wrote:
> njl         2002/09/14 11:55:11 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             kern_exec.c 
>   Log:
>   Move setugidsafety() call outside of process lock.  This prevents a lock
>   recursion when closef() calls pfind() which also wants the proc lock.
>   This case only occurred when setugidsafety() needed to close unsafe files.
>   
>   Reviewed by:    truckman

Hmm, this is safe, but setugidsafety() has a race where it drops the filedesc
lock around knote_fdclose().  Hmm, there actually is a race everywhere
knote_fdclose() is called I think.  I'll have to think about how to rework
knote_fdclose(), knote_remove(), etc. to avoid the races.

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