Re: kern/41051: do_sys_rename mp resource race

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/41051; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/41051: do_sys_rename mp resource race
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:30:21 +0000

 On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:10:06AM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
  >> take reference to mp around rename
  >  
  >  Disagree. I think VOPs should not, in general, be dropping refs to vnodes
  >  that the caller provides.
 
 Of course they shouldn't... but you know they *all* do that, right?
 Cleaning this up is not exactly a trivial undertaking...
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost