cvs commit: src/sys/kern sys_pipe.c

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20031012081323.GL533 at funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote this message on Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 10:05 +0200:
>> In message <200310120706.h9C763U6085132 at repoman.freebsd.org>, John-Mark Gurney 
>> writes:
>> >jmg         2003/10/12 00:06:03 PDT
>> >
>> >  FreeBSD src repository
>> >
>> >  Modified files:
>> >    sys/kern             sys_pipe.c 
>> >  Log:
>> >  fix a problem referencing free'd memory.  This is only a problem for
>> >  kqueue write events on a socket and you regularly create tons of pipes
>> >  which overwrites the structure causing a panic when removing the knote
>> >  from the list.  If the peer has gone away (and it's a write knote), then
>> >  don't bother trying to remove the knote from the list.
>> 
>> Does this fix make(1) compiled with -DUSE_KQUEUE ?
>
>Hmmm.. After looking at the make source, no, it probably doesn't.  The
>bug this fixed was limited to EVFILT_WRITE events being registered on
>pipes, and make(1) doesn't use EVFILT_WRITE.
>
>Do we have a back trace on the problem with make?

Just do a make -j 12 buildworld and your kernel will explode.

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