possible unionfs bug
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
nick at garage.freebsd.pl
Sun Jul 20 08:09:56 PDT 2003
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 03:02:21PM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
+> I might be wrong but this:
+>
+> free(mp->mnt_data, M_UNIONFSMNT); /* XXX */
+> mp->mnt_data = 0;
+>
+> seems to me wrong.... and might cause crashes etc.
+> am I correct or wrong?
Could you describe scenario when this could be dangerous? Or why do you
think it is?
This memory is allocated while mounting unionfs file system,
so it is quite natural to free this memory while unmounting file system.
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