Re: kern/41874: in-kernel NFS server hates network interface aliases

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 05:40:04PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/41874; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: kern/41874: in-kernel NFS server hates network interface
>       aliases
> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:39:20 +0000
> 
>  On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 04:40:03PM +0000, Erik E. Fair wrote:
>   > So, I think there is a pretty strong circumstantial case linking
>   > this particular configuration change and the subsequent locking
>   > panics.
>  
>  Sure; it just doesn't make any sense.

Maybe the problem is that there is a code path in NFS that is failing to
release the lock ?
Only when the same process tries to acquire it does the 'locking
against myself' trap happen - other processes will just sleep.

        David

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