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Date:      Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:50:04 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] MPSAFE/LOOKUP_SHARED cd9660
Message-ID:  <200812101450.04638.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <3a142e750812100922m553be9c6sdcd81d98c81c7ab4@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200811191510.53793.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200812091602.10850.jhb@freebsd.org> <3a142e750812100922m553be9c6sdcd81d98c81c7ab4@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 10 December 2008 12:22:43 pm Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 12/9/08, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > The RRIP stuff is all done in cd9660_vget_internal() under an exclusive
> > lock.
> > It could be a property of the ISO image.  "PX" holds permissions (owner,
> > etc.).  Do you get the same messages w/o the patch with the same ISO 
image /
> > CD?
> >
> > --
> > John Baldwin
> >
> 
> I searched little for this message and found  kern/63446 PR interesting 
comment:
> 
> 	Caused by cd9660_vnops.c rev. 1.77. VOP_READDIR returns bogus
> 	d_fileno, VFS_VGET on this value returns bogus vnode with zeroed 
attributes.
> 
> I think that whatever locking is done is done wrong.

That issue isn't a locking issue, it's an issue with VOP_READDIR() using a 
different meaning for i-node numbers than VFS_VGET(), and would happen 
regardless of any Giant or vnode locking.

-- 
John Baldwin



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