Re: veriexec(4) maintenance

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

I tried sending this with the diff but I think it was a bit big,
here is the text, the diff is at ftp.netbsd.org under
/pub/NetBSD/misc/blymn/veriexec_update

On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 07:51:50AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 11:24:22PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> > 
> > I was looking at this last weekend and for veriexec I have one fix and
> > some comments/notes, which I should probably commit.
> > 
> 
> OK, that sounds good.
> 
> > fileassoc I would recommend flushing and replacing with a proper
> > specificdata implementation for vnodes, which there should be no
> > particular barrier to. fileassoc is trying to be that but it's both
> > bust and doing it wrong. :-|
> > 
> 
> I think fileassoc was added with the view for using it for other things
> but in the end only veriexec is using it.  We can revert it back to
> it being veriexec specific.
> 
> I have attached a diff that is a version of veriexec that uses condvars
> and ref counters to handle the access control.  It compiles but
> hasn't been run tested on a current kernel (it worked when i used it
> before but it has been a long time).
> 

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