Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:03:46 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Someone broke diskless booting Message-ID: <200703021503.46562.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070302185930.GA30505@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070225233333.GA80065@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070302185930.GA30505@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Friday 02 March 2007 13:59, Kris Kennaway wrote: > It's not obvious to me how this happened, but binary searching narrows > down the cause to the following commit: > > jhb 2007-02-23 19:46:59 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > sys/kern kern_linker.c > Log: > Drop the global kernel linker lock while executing the sysinit's for a > freshly-loaded kernel module. To avoid various unload races, hide linker > files whose sysinit's are being run from userland so that they can't be > kldunloaded until after all the sysinit's have finished. > > Tested by: gallatin > > Revision Changes Path > 1.145 +21 -15 src/sys/kern/kern_linker.c > > Kris > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 06:33:33PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Some time in the past week or so someone committed a change to the > > kernel that broke diskless booting: > > > > Trying to mount root from nfs: > > fxp0: link state changed to UP > > NFS ROOT: 69.147.83.43:/a/nfs/7.dir1 > > Interface fxp0 IP-Address 69.147.83.96 Broadcast 69.147.83.127 > > mdmfs: mdconfig (attach) exited with error code 1 > > cp: /etc/gss/mech: Read-only file system > > cp: /etc/gss/qop: Read-only file system > > cp: utimes: /etc/gss: Read-only file system > > cp: /etc/ppp/ppp.conf: Read-only file system > > ... > > nfs server 69.147.83.43:/a/nfs/7.dir1: not responding > > nfs server 69.147.83.43:/a/nfs/7.dir1: not responding > > nfs server 69.147.83.43:/a/nfs/7.dir1: not responding > > > > Kris > > Do you have the later fix to kern/link_elf.c to mark the kernel as linked so modstat(2) and kldnext(2) work on the kernel again? If mdconfig tries to see if 'device md' is in the kernel and fails if not, then it the fix to kern/link_elf.c should fix it. -- John Baldwin
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