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Date:      Tue, 01 May 2007 13:34:52 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net>
Subject:   Re: strace causes panic: sleeping thread
Message-ID:  <864pmwbwv7.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20070501111902.GA2441@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> (Kostik Belousov's message of "Tue, 1 May 2007 14:19:02 %2B0300")
References:  <200704281128.44077.shoesoft@gmx.net> <20070428115503.GM2441@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <86y7k8rgc4.fsf@dwp.des.no> <86tzuwrfui.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070501111902.GA2441@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> writes:
> The procfs PIOCWAIT/PIOCWAIT32 ioctls drop the p_mtx for
> sleep. Could it be that p being freed/reused meantime ?

So it should be held while the lock is dropped.  It is still a procfs
issue (and one that was present, although benign, before I removed
Giant from pseudofs).  Please try this updated patch.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no


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Index: sys/fs/procfs/procfs_ioctl.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/fs/procfs/procfs_ioctl.c,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 procfs_ioctl.c
--- sys/fs/procfs/procfs_ioctl.c	19 Feb 2007 13:04:25 -0000	1.16
+++ sys/fs/procfs/procfs_ioctl.c	1 May 2007 11:30:22 -0000
@@ -70,7 +70,10 @@
 	int ival;
 #endif
 
-	PROC_LOCK(p);
+	KASSERT(p != NULL,
+	    ("%s() called without a process", __func__));
+	PROC_LOCK_ASSERT(p, MA_OWNED);
+
 	error = 0;
 	switch (cmd) {
 #if defined(COMPAT_FREEBSD5) || defined(COMPAT_FREEBSD4) || defined(COMPAT_43)
@@ -124,8 +127,10 @@
 	case PIOCWAIT:
 		while (p->p_step == 0 && (p->p_flag & P_WEXIT) == 0) {
 			/* sleep until p stops */
+			_PHOLD(p);
 			error = msleep(&p->p_stype, &p->p_mtx,
 			    PWAIT|PCATCH, "pioctl", 0);
+			_PRELE(p);
 			if (error != 0)
 				break;
 		}
@@ -142,8 +147,10 @@
 	case PIOCWAIT32:
 		while (p->p_step == 0 && (p->p_flag & P_WEXIT) == 0) {
 			/* sleep until p stops */
+			_PHOLD(p);
 			error = msleep(&p->p_stype, &p->p_mtx,
 			    PWAIT|PCATCH, "pioctl", 0);
+			_PRELE(p);
 			if (error != 0)
 				break;
 		}
@@ -193,7 +200,6 @@
 	default:
 		error = (ENOTTY);
 	}
-	PROC_UNLOCK(p);
 
 	return (error);
 }

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