svn commit: r239353 - head/sys/netinet

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 20 12:31:35 UTC 2012


On Saturday, August 18, 2012 5:31:24 am Randall Stewart wrote:
> Note that in the main FreeBSD sources however, the fact that ip_input.c does *not* lock
> when it looks at the hash table these lines are removing from here means there is still a potential
> for a crash. I have a fix for this that does not require the lock, when I get a moment
> I will send it your way… you have seen part of it ;-)

Heh, that is probably true, I just think that moving the ifa_free() around
here doesn't help to solve those crashes.  You are just as vulnerable no
matter where they are performed.

-- 
John Baldwin


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