svn commit: r272596 - head/sys/fs/devfs

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 6 16:38:11 UTC 2014


On Monday, October 06, 2014 06:20:36 AM Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> Author: mjg
> Date: Mon Oct  6 06:20:35 2014
> New Revision: 272596
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/272596
> 
> Log:
>   devfs: don't take proctree_lock unconditionally in devfs_close
> 
>   MFC after:	1 week

Just for my sanity:

What keeps td->td_proc->p_session static in this case so that it is safe to 
dereference it?  Specifically, if you are preempted after reading p_session 
but before you then read s_ttyvp, what prevents a race with another thread 
changing the session of td->td_proc?

-- 
John Baldwin


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