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Date:      Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:28:25 +0100
From:      Andrew Brampton <brampton+freebsd-net@gmail.com>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is this a race in mbuf's refcounting?
Message-ID:  <d41814900909210828i3581266cqffafd57290da481a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090921151318.GA27605@sandvine.com>
References:  <d41814900909210543p46894d83u6d814353ea1ee130@mail.gmail.com> <20090921151318.GA27605@sandvine.com>

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2009/9/21 Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:43:33PM +0100, Andrew Brampton wrote:
>
> Your analysis is correct; this issue also has a PR, kern/137145.
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/137145
>
> As you point out it requires that two threads have a reference to the
> same non-shared mbuf. =C2=A0I had a quick look and didn't find any case o=
f
> this in the vanilla FreeBSD tree; if I didn't miss anything it'll
> affect only 3rd party src.
>
> We'll need to have a look at this after 8.0 is done.
>
> -Ed
>

I didn't notice there was a PR for this.

Thanks
Andrew



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