Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 12:14:08 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please ... Message-ID: <199508021914.MAA00831@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Aug 95 12:54:27 MDT." <9508021854.AA08742@cs.weber.edu>
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>> >... can anybody look at our problem i posted a week before - here is the post >> >again - the debug kernel and kernel crash dump can be found at: >> >> I'm pretty sure that your bug has already been fixed. I think it is caused >> by the VOP_GETATTR() call failing at the wrong time. If it is possible for you >> to update your sources to 2.1-stable via SUP or via FTP by getting the 7/26 >> snapshot, then please do so. > >Please see my recent patch. When it comes to file systems, I honestly *do* >know what the hell I'm doing. Really. Perhaps, but you certainly haven't looked closely at the problem he reported. The panic is in vn_open and looks identical to the failure I fixed some time back. >The patch fixes two VOP_GETATTR lock instances, though only one or the >other can bite you depending on the protocol rev you are using. Yes, the patch looks interesting. I'm uncertain about the VOP_LOCK around the call to VFS_VGET, but I suppose that this might protect the mount point from going away. I'll look into this further. -DG
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