Re: kern/39940: agr locking error

[yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi)]

hi,

thanks for looking at this.

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:00:01AM +0000, yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost 
> wrote:
> > >Description:
> >     see below.
> >     while agr_ioctl is not expected to be called recursively,
> >     it has been changed to call ifioctl_common, which seems to call
> >     if_ioctl handler recursively.
> 
> Can you explain why the locking is necessary?  I believe that
> KERNEL_LOCK() synchronizes the ioctls.

i forgot details.
something can sleep?
trying to be a little more independent from kernel_lock?

YAMAMOTO Takashi

> 
> Dave
> 
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