Subject: Re: kern/36610 (nfs mutex bug causes crash)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: David Holland <dholland@eecs.harvard.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/12/2007 20:25:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/36610; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dholland@eecs.harvard.edu (David Holland)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, rmind@netbsd.org,
	dholland@eecs.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: kern/36610 (nfs mutex bug causes crash)
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:41:35 -0400 (EDT)

  >  Problem found and fix provided by David A. Holland, PR/36610.
  >  Actually, relock is not needed here, and mutex would be unlocked
  >  only on nfs_sigintr() fail case.
 
 I assumed from the context that it wasn't good to call nfs_sigintr
 holding the mutex, so I preserved that behavior in my patch... oh
 well, guess I should have checked more deeply. :-/
 
 -- 
    - David A. Holland / dholland@eecs.harvard.edu