5.3-RELEASE TODO

[Tim Robbins]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:20:19PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> 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.

I was going to, but it turns out that my original solution of not
putting "embryonic" processes on allproc would further break checkdirs() --
there are already a few kinds of races that can happen there, and I don't
want to add more.


Tim