mount memory modified after free

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Oct 19 23:51:36 PDT 2005


In message <20051020063303.GA19624 at garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek writ
es:

>Bascially there is only one place to store mount-point's
>vnode in device structure (IIRC) and if you mount the same provider twice,
>it will be overwritten and you'll not be able to unmount first file system
>without panicing.

There is more, you also need to cope with the UFS snapshot data hung
off the cdev etc.


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