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Date:      Sun, 16 Jun 2002 04:10:23 -0700
From:      Mike Makonnen <makonnen@pacbell.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, jrh@lab.it.uc3m.es, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fixing "could sleeep..." was (Re: ../../../vm/uma_core.c:132
Message-ID:  <20020616041023.47491ea3.makonnen@pacbell.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020611183332.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20020611152747.091c2377.makonnen@pacbell.net> <XFMail.20020611183332.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:33:32 -0400 (EDT)
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:

> 
> Well, it shouldn't be but it is. :-P  However, one should try to avoid holding
> locks except when necessary to maximize concurrency.  Thus it is better to do
> things like malloc() and free() while not holding locks if possible.
> 
> > On which way to go:
> > I like your idea better, because it is less work and less bloat. Sometimes
> > I have to keep reminding myself: "Choose the simplest design that works."
> 
> Fair enough.  Thanks for working on this.
> 

np. It's much fun!

I don't know if you recieved my earlier email about a bug that I found in
execve() while working on fixing the "malloc w/ process lock held" bugs.
Here's a simpler patch.

It fixes possible resource leaks and failure to unlock a lock, introduced
by nectar@ in rev. 1.162 of kern/kern_exec.c, in the case where the call
to fdcheckstd() fails. Basically it fails to deallocate resources and unlock the
process lock.

Cheers,
Mike Makonnen

Index: sys/kern/kern_exec.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/kern_exec.c,v
retrieving revision 1.164
diff -u -r1.164 kern_exec.c
--- sys/kern/kern_exec.c	7 Jun 2002 05:41:27 -0000	1.164
+++ sys/kern/kern_exec.c	14 Jun 2002 14:06:14 -0000
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 	struct image_params image_params, *imgp;
 	struct vattr attr;
 	int (*img_first)(struct image_params *);
-	struct pargs *oldargs, *newargs = NULL;
+	struct pargs *oldargs=NULL, *newargs = NULL;
 	struct procsig *oldprocsig, *newprocsig;
 #ifdef KTRACE
 	struct vnode *tracevp = NULL;
@@ -383,8 +383,10 @@
 #endif
 		/* Make sure file descriptors 0..2 are in use.  */
 		error = fdcheckstd(td);
-		if (error != 0)
-			goto exec_fail_dealloc;
+		if (error != 0) {
+			oldcred = NULL;
+			goto done1;
+		}
 		/*
 		 * Set the new credentials.
 		 */
@@ -467,6 +469,7 @@
 		p->p_args = newargs;
 		newargs = NULL;
 	}
+done1:
 	PROC_UNLOCK(p);
 
 	/*
@@ -486,7 +489,8 @@
 	if (tracevp != NULL)
 		vrele(tracevp);
 #endif
-	pargs_drop(oldargs);
+	if (oldargs != NULL)
+		pargs_drop(oldargs);
 
 exec_fail_dealloc:
 

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