Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:44:12 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Found BAD BUG: squashed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104192239120.9719-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20010419105902.B3605@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Would there be any bad implications of upping cr_ref to 32-bit before 4.3? > Besides binary compatibility? (I know, I know.. recompiling third-party > kernel modules and all..) It's hard to tell with only 1 day to test :-). Non-bloatage of the struct makes bugs less obvious. If not all the modules are compiled, then some modules may provide (nonzero) garbage in the padding after cr_ref. This will be interpreted as a large refcount by new kernels and ucreds will never be freed. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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