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Re: Deferred freeing of kauth_cred_ts



On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 06:27:04PM -0500, Elad Efrat wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius
>> <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>>
>> > The question is - why freeing is performed from interrupt context?
>>
>> I couldn't find where sofree() might be reached from interrupt
>> context, but I might be missing something.
>
> Neither could I.  Neither could Andy.  I think we both tripped over
> the fact, unfortunately, that it could in fact happen, though.

Okay, then this is ridiculous and needs to be resolved. Do you think
it makes sense to just accept it as-is? :)

Would you agree to adding the credentials and waiting for the first
person to complain, perhaps plus a heads-up on current-users@ so that
people are alert to such panics?

-e.


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