Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: Elad Efrat <elad@9of9.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 04/05/2007 10:40:48
YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>> the reason fileassoc lacked locking primitives is that I waited for
>> ad@ to commit and stablize newlock2. I *discussed* this pr with ad@
>> and yamt@, and, as a matter of fact, *prior* to newlock2, in a biglock
>> kernel, it is impossible to trigger the NULL deref.
> 
> i've explained you that the PR is not (necessarily) about MP.
> did you understand it?
> 
> (i'm not talking about this particular instance of NULL dereference.
> i'm not interested in analyzing how the known to be broken code can behave.
> i merely want to make sure that you know about the problem.  if you already
> know, it's fine.)

I know.

-e.