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Date:      Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:39:01 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, tanimura@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Lock order reversals in sys_pipe.c and kern_sig.c
Message-ID:  <20021118193901.GA16066@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021118190819.GK12906@rot13.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20021118190819.GK12906@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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* Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> [021118 11:06] wrote:
> I've just turned witness back on on the bento cluster, and got the
> following lock order reversals a number of times overnight:
> 
> Nov 18 07:45:40 <user.crit> gohan11 kernel: 1st 0xc6887200 pipe mutex (pipe mutex) @ /local0/src-client/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c:465
> Nov 18 07:45:40 <user.crit> gohan11 kernel: 2nd 0xc0447780 sigio lock (sigio lock) @ /local0/src-client/sys/kern/kern_sig.c:2225
> Nov 18 10:28:47 <user.crit> gohan10 kernel: 1st 0xc4941580 pipe mutex (pipe mutex) @ /local0/src-client/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c:1038
> [...]
> 
> Are these known problems?

Well now they are, I will investigate as time permits.

I'm still in a holding pattern about adding more debugging info to
lockd now that we're in release candidate mode.  I may ask for a
branch to be done, but i'm not sure yet.

thank you,
-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'

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