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Date:      Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:18:18 +0200
From:      Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Today's RELENG_5_4 and 'lock cmpxchgl'
Message-ID:  <20050719121818.GA12675@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20050719115314.GD11846@stack.nl>
References:  <20050713092939.GA65261@stack.nl> <20050713120030.GB23629@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050713125522.GA62977@stack.nl> <20050713184118.GD42067@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050714130520.GB26456@stack.nl> <20050714174403.GC19081@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050715094027.GA35516@stack.nl> <20050715100539.GC35516@stack.nl> <20050715120522.GA20426@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050719115314.GD11846@stack.nl>

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On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:53:14PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:05:23AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > Ok, even non-SMP 7-CURRENT crashes on it, so I do not believe that I'm
> > > the only one seeing this...
> >=20
> > You're not..as noted, it's been widely reported.
>=20
> Could you give me any pointers to where this has been discussed before ?
>=20
> Would placing all of the ptsopen() and ptcclose() code under a giant
> lock help ? Or is the problem somewhere else ?

Ah, nevermind, it already operates under GIANT, so something else is
molesting the tty's t_line array. Perhaps some kind of use after free
issue ?

Marc

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