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Date:      Thu, 1 May 2003 00:20:26 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_vfsops.c
Message-ID:  <20030501072026.GA87518@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200305010642.h416g0sr018829@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200305010642.h416g0sr018829@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:42:00PM -0700, Tim J. Robbins wrote:
> tjr         2003/04/30 23:42:00 PDT
>=20
>   FreeBSD src repository
>=20
>   Modified files:
>     sys/ufs/ffs          ffs_vfsops.c=20
>   Log:
>   Do not attempt to free NULL dinodes (i_din1 or i_din2) in ffs_ifree().
>   These fields can be left as NULL if ffs_vget() allocates an inode but
>   fails before the dinode memory has been allocated. There are two cases
>   when this can occur: when we lose a race and another process has added
>   the inode to the hash, and when reading the inode off disk fails.
>  =20
>   The bug was observed by Kris on one of the package-building machines.
>   See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dfreebsd-current&m=3D1051727310134=
11&w=3D2
>   In Kris's case, it was the bread() that failed because of a disk error.
>  =20
>   The alternative to this patch is to ensure that ffs_vget() does not call
>   vput() when the inode that hasn't been properly initialised.

Thanks!

Kris

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