[patch] zfs livelock and thread priorities

[Artem Belevich]

Ah! Indeed.

> va_list va;
> va_start(ap, fmt);
> va_copy(va, ap);
> vsnprintf(p2->p_comm, sizeof(p2->p_comm), fmt, va);
> vsnprintf(td->td_name, sizeof(td->td_name), fmt, ap);

We also need va_end(va) to clear up after va_copy();

I'll give it a try.

Thanks,
--Artem



On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Ryan Stone <rysto32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The crash happens because vsnprintf is called twice on the same va_list.
> That's not legal.  It happens to work on i386, but it will crash on amd64.
> The patch should instead do:
>
> va_list va;
> va_start(ap, fmt);
> va_copy(va, ap);
> vsnprintf(p2->p_comm, sizeof(p2->p_comm), fmt, va);
> vsnprintf(td->td_name, sizeof(td->td_name), fmt, ap);
>
> Ryan Stone
>
>