svn commit: r277489 - head/sys/kern

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 21 18:24:49 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 04:32:55PM +0000, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
K> Author: kib
K> Date: Wed Jan 21 16:32:54 2015
K> New Revision: 277489
K> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/277489
K> 
K> Log:
K>   Do not assert that the new pipepair mutex is not initialized.  The
K>   backing memory contains garbage and might trigger the assertion.

I have touched dozen of places in kernel where I do explicit M_ZERO on
allocation just to satisfy later assertion in the mtx_init. Is the
correct fix to use MTX_NEW?

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.


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