Re: kern/41051: do_sys_rename mp resource race

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

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Subject: Re: kern/41051: do_sys_rename mp resource race
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:15:03 +0000

 On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:35:01PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 
 >  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?
 
 Wrong.
 
 >  Cleaning this up is not exactly a trivial undertaking...
 
 Right.