Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:10:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Found BAD BUG: squashed Message-ID: <200104191710.f3JHAka55437@earth.backplane.com> References: <200104191647.JAA02940@usr08.primenet.com>
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:Note that Bruce's fix doesn't addres the invariant stomping the
:reference count, which makes checking for multiple frees
:impossible. The only way to fix that is to move the cr_ref out
:of the first two bytes.
:
:
:I would still like a general reference counting mechanism, so
:I could turn on overflow checking at runtime.
:
:As I said before, this is independent of whether the cred is
:duplicated near overflow, or the count pushes the overflow off
:to 4 billion (without preventing it).
:
: Terry Lambert
I think we can safely move the ref counter to the end of the
structure (and make it a u_int) after the 4.3 release, and if
you want to have a KASSERT to test for 4-billion-overflow, that's
fine with me too. I think being able to check for a double-free
is a good idea.
-Matt
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