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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 1999 23:47:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Simple DOS against 3.x locks box solid 
Message-ID:  <199903150747.XAA96296@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <199903142204.BAA03697@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>

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:Matthew Dillon wrote:
:> -			error = acquire(lkp, extflags,
:> -				LK_HAVE_EXCL | LK_WANT_EXCL | LK_WANT_UPGRADE);
:> +			if (p->p_flag & P_DEADLKTREAT) {
:> +				error = acquire(
:
:This is broken: p may be NULL, it is checked several lines before. 
:My kernel just paniced for this reason.
:
:Well, sorry for late response, but: what was wrong with Tor Egge's 
:"workaround" from kern/8416?
:
:Dima

    We'll get a quick fix committed but the lockmgr stuff needs a real
    going-over... having interrupts using the general lockmgr call is
    a disaster waiting to happen.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>


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