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Date:      Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:01:36 +0000 (UTC)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r188209 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <200902052301.n15N1a04041963@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: jhb
Date: Thu Feb  5 23:01:36 2009
New Revision: 188209
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/188209

Log:
  Drop the kernel linker lock while running SYSUNINIT routines and removing
  sysctls during a linker file unload.  We drop the lock when doing similar
  operations during a linker file load.  To close races, clear the LINKED
  flag before dropping the lock so that the linker file is no longer visible
  to userland.
  
  MFC after:	1 week

Modified:
  head/sys/kern/kern_linker.c

Modified: head/sys/kern/kern_linker.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/kern/kern_linker.c	Thu Feb  5 22:19:13 2009	(r188208)
+++ head/sys/kern/kern_linker.c	Thu Feb  5 23:01:36 2009	(r188209)
@@ -643,8 +643,11 @@ linker_file_unload(linker_file_t file, i
 	 * link error.
 	 */
 	if (file->flags & LINKER_FILE_LINKED) {
+		file->flags &= ~LINKER_FILE_LINKED;
+		KLD_UNLOCK();
 		linker_file_sysuninit(file);
 		linker_file_unregister_sysctls(file);
+		KLD_LOCK();
 	}
 	TAILQ_REMOVE(&linker_files, file, link);
 



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