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Date:      Tue, 27 Aug 2019 06:03:46 -0700
From:      Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@gmail.com>
To:        "mms.vanbreukelingen@gmail.com" <mms.vanbreukelingen@gmail.com>
Cc:        "kostikbel@gmail.com" <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>,  Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>,  "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Kernel-Crash when working with ubt0
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> > Hmm... interesting....
> >
> > I only took a brief look at it. I suppose I can ensure user space address is wired and then copyout() can be called with mutex held
>
> >No, you cannot do this, at least without making the kernel to panic.
> User might unmap the wired mapping at any time still.

Kostik,

i was thinking along the lines of vslock/vsunlock and copyout_nofault.
basically similar to the sysctl code. do you think this would not
work?

thanks,
max



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