5.3-RELEASE TODO

[Colin Percival]

At 15:04 15/07/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>* linprocfs 
>[...]
>       if (pvd->pvd_pid != NO_PID) {
>                if ((proc = pfind(pvd->pvd_pid)) == NULL)
>                        PFS_RETURN (ENOENT);
>-->             vap->va_uid = proc->p_ucred->cr_ruid;
>
>rwatson has a patch that works around this particular null pointer
>deref, but the underlying cause is not addressed.

This looks like the "embryonic processes are added to allproc and
p_hash too soon" bug (cf. kern/68364).  Last I heard, tjr was going
to fix this in the next few days.

Colin Percival