Re: kern/45415: ptyfs crashes -current

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Oct 4,  9:05am, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/45415: ptyfs crashes -current

| The following reply was made to PR kern/45415; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
| To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
| Cc: 
| Subject: Re: kern/45415: ptyfs crashes -current
| Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:04:45 +0200
| 
|  Actually the mount pointer is NULL - this can not be intended, as ptyfs later
|  accesses mnt_data all over the place (even if I avoid the NULL deref 
initially
|  reported here).

It probably has to do with the latest vnode changes. Perhaps ptyfs is keeping
dead vnodes active when it should not, because I cannot find a code path where
the v_mount is NULL on allocation.

christos