Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 13:16:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: proc->pstats / SIGVTALRM Message-ID: <200106072016.f57KGqH02474@mass.dis.org>
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In fielding a question from someone regarding what appears to be
SIGVTALRM sniping on their system, I noticed that the pstats structure
(which holds the p_timer fields which are used to track interval timers)
is outside the bzero-on-allocation region of the proc structure.
Thus it seems to me that it would be possible for garbage to be present
in these fields, leading to possible spurious generation of this signal.
Can anyone point out where I'm mistaken here?
Regards,
Mike
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