kern/89528: [jail] impossible to kill a jail

[Ed Schouten]

* John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Why aren't the pty's destroyed?  Once all references to the pty are closed it  
> should be destroyed and the resulting devfs_free() should drop the reference.
> Is the pty somehow stuck on the dead_cdevsw?

Ouch! I found a comment in tty_pty.c that it doesn't deallocate pty's
anymore. Not a single destroy_dev() is called by tty_pty.c. This means
the FreeBSD kernel leaks a lot of cdev's and thus ucred's and my patch
is working around another bug.

Yours,
-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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