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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:00:16 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disk_clone() bug 
Message-ID:  <16544.1003503616@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2001 02:22:29 MDT." <20011019022229.A90892@colnta.internal> 

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Sounds like the bug is the md driver cloning "md10ec" which it shouldn't
do.  This bug must naturally be in md_clone(), but I don't have the
minutes right now to hunt it down.

Should be quite simple to nail, it's just some string handling code.

Poul-Henning

In message <20011019022229.A90892@colnta.internal>, Chad David writes:
>I posted a bug report and patch in kern/29104 and Dima Dorfman also mentioned
>this in July/August, but it still has not been resolved.  The method of
>triggering it that I detailed in my bug report no longer seems to work,
>but I've managed to create another one.
>
># mdconfig -a -t swap -s 32m -u 10
># disklabel -r -w md10 auto
># disklabel -e md10e (copy c to e and set type to 4.2BSD)
># ls -l /dev/md10*
>crw-r-----  1 root  operator   95, 0x00010052 Oct 19 01:50 /dev/md10
>crw-r-----  1 root  operator   95,  82 Oct 19 02:00 /dev/md10c
>crw-r-----  1 root  operator   95,  84 Oct 19 01:55 /dev/md10ec
>crw-------  1 root  wheel      95, 0xffff00ff Oct 19 01:50 /dev/mdctl
>
>Now if you access (open(2)) md10e the system will kill itself when you
>run mdconfig -d.  If I am doing something evil I'd like to know, but either
>way the kernel should not enter an endless loop!
>
>I have not had time to determine why disklabel -e md10e will kill it, but
>disklabel -e /dev/md10e will not.  I think it has to do with how disklabel
>appends the 'c'.
>
>The patch that I provided in 29104 is probably not the correct solution
>(I like Dima's default better), and may not even be "fixing" the problem
>in the correct place.  Any advice would be very welcome.
>
>-- 
>Chad David        davidc@acns.ab.ca
>ACNS Inc.         Calgary, Alberta Canada
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