cvs commit: src/sys/dev/random randomdev.c

Mark Murray mark at grondar.org
Wed Apr 14 13:15:13 PDT 2004


John Baldwin writes:
> On Monday 12 April 2004 05:13 am, Mark Murray wrote:
> > markm       2004/04/12 02:13:24 PDT
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/dev/random       randomdev.c
> >   Log:
> >   Fix "sleeping without a mutex" panic.
> 
> You should drop the lock before uiomove().  If the uio can possibly reference 
> user memory, then uiomove() will do a copyout() which can fault and thus 
> sleep if the page is in swap.

Oops. Thank you! Will do.

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