crash in tty code in 6.1.. fixed since?
Attilio Rao
attilio at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 13 22:23:45 UTC 2007
M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <46972B28.1010409 at FreeBSD.org>
> Attilio Rao <attilio at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : I think it has been fixed some months ago IIRC.
> : The problem here, should be that if sx_slock() let thread sleep, Giant
> : is released before to sleep and tp->t_session can be accessed in racy way.
> : Another nice side-effect about having tty Giant :)
>
> I've been having crashes right and left in cblock code. I've had good
> luck converting it to using a mutext. However, someone else was
> telling me they had big problems going all the way and locking the
> entire TTY subsystem. The evidence is in p4...
What depot do you refer exactly?
Attilio
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