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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:32:04 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic: bwrite: buffer is not busy???
Message-ID:  <20020318143204.GA688@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzp4rjep7m5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <20020317124958.A34008@xor.obsecurity.org> <xzpadt6r1xr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020318061739.GB894@elvis.mu.org> <xzpvgbupdqa.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020318071623.GD894@elvis.mu.org> <20020318010245.A48956@xor.obsecurity.org> <xzp4rjep7m5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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* Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> [020318 01:07] wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
> > With the corrected version of that patch (and a patch from Tor to fix
> > VM deadlocks in green's commit) I got this panic.
> 
> ...which is completely uninteresting, actually, except as proof that
> the patch (and my initial analysis) is incorrect.  With the patch
> applied, tail(1) will *always* cause this panic; it is a direct and
> inevitable consequence of the patch clearing p->p_fd before calling
> closef().

I think you're right, I'm pretty sure the fix is basically moving
the p->p_fd = NULL to after the closef will fix things, but to get
it right you need to lock the FILEDESC properly, I'll have another
patch later today.

Sorry for taking so long to look at this.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
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 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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