Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 18:54:21 +0200 From: Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@idi.ntnu.no> To: dfr@nlsystems.com Cc: terry@lambert.org, dg@root.com, ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/3184: vnodes are used after they are freed. (dup alloc?) Message-ID: <199704051654.SAA01155@pat.idt.unit.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 5 Apr 1997 17:40:31 %2B0100 (BST)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970405173829.8538J-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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> I know about this problem. Unfortunately the only way of fixing it is
> probably to keep private pools of vnodes for each filesystem (which Terry
> has been badgering me about for *years*). It might happen but it is a
> fair amount of work. For the moment, I will settle with a system which is
> stable, even it does hang when a server fails.
Two other ways:
- Let getnewvnode call VOP_ISLOCKED and skip locked nodes on the
so-called free list.
- Delay putting vnodes onto the so-called free list until
VOP_INACTIVE has been called, and use a flag to indicate that a
vnode is not on the so-called free list even when v_usecount is
0. Add needed checks where the code currently assumes that
v_usecount==0 means that the vnode is on the so-called free list.
- Tor Egge
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