netgraph(4) initialization order
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 5 13:34:53 PST 2005
Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> [...]
>
>>>> how about new attached patch?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Exactly what I had in mind =-) Have you tested this out to make sure
>>> it fixes the problem cases?
>>
>>
>> i'm building kernel now, but i'm almost certain it will fix the
>> problem. the stack trace i got points to ng_newtype() calling
>> ng_findtype() that wants to mtx_lock(ng_typelist_mtx). i'm pretty sure
>> the ng_typelist_mtx mutex was not initialized, that is ngb_mod_event()
>> was never called.
>>
>> panic: mtx_lock() of spin mutex (null) @
>> /usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:1189
>>
>> no mutex name and ng_typelist_mtx is *not* a spin mutex.
>>
>> ng_ubt(4) calls ng_newtype() from its mod_event handler, so i think
>> ng_ubt(4) mod_event handler was called before ngb_mod_event().
>
>
> built new kernel (with netgraph and ubt compiled in) and rebooted the
> box. no crash. so patch works.
>
> can i commit it?
>
> thanks,
> max
Sounds good, thanks for working on this! I don't think that there are
any API/ABI implications for RELENG_5 that would prevent this from being
merged back, but we might want to think a bit more about it just to be
sure.
Scott
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