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Date:      Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:02:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        tanimura@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
Subject:   Re: Lock order reversals in sys_pipe.c and kern_sig.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021205110247.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021204231245.GH58155@elvis.mu.org>

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On 04-Dec-2002 Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> [021204 15:04] wrote:
>> 
>> FYI, just got a similar one yesterday on an up-to-date -current:
>> 
>> lock order reversal
>>  1st 0xc784d700 pipe mutex (pipe mutex) @ /usr/src/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c:465
>>  2nd 0xc0513840 sigio lock (sigio lock) @ /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sig.c:2225
> 
> Since no one has given me the traceback based on the patch I posted
> earlier I have ceased to care about the "problem".  If someone
> seriously cares they will run with my patch and post a backtrace.

Your patch doesn't work because it makes a bogus assumption.  A better
try would be this:

Index: subr_witness.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/sys/kern/subr_witness.c,v
retrieving revision 1.130
diff -u -r1.130 subr_witness.c
--- subr_witness.c      11 Nov 2002 16:36:20 -0000      1.130
+++ subr_witness.c      18 Nov 2002 20:42:35 -0000
@@ -205,6 +205,9 @@
        { "uidinfo hash", &lock_class_mtx_sleep },
        { "uidinfo struct", &lock_class_mtx_sleep },
        { NULL, NULL },
+       { "sigio lock", &lock_class_mtx_sleep },
+       { "pipe mutex", &lock_class_mtx_sleep },
+       { NULL, NULL },
        /*
         * spin locks
         */

-- 

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