I can't look at it till tomorrow. But I've been watching. I'd be surprised if anything broke with what I've seen. I'll look at it then if you haven;t commited by then.
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 23-Feb-02 John Baldwin wrote: > > I'm currently testing the following patch whcih is a subset of the td_ucred > > changes. It involves no API changes, but only contains 2 basic changes: > > > > 1) We still need Giant when doing the crhold() to set td_ucred in > > cred_update_thread(). This is an old bug that is my fault. I knew that > > PROC_LOCK was sufficient yet which was my reason for not using td_ucred. > > However, we could still be derferencing a stale p_ucred and doing very bad > > things, so this needs to be fixed until p_ucred is fully protected by the > > PROC_LOCK. This also means that td_ucred is now safe to use. As such: > > > > 2) All the "easy" p->p_ucred -> td->td_ucred changes that don't involve the > > changes to API's such as suser() and p_canfoo(). The next patch in this > > series will most likely be the suser() API change. > > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ucred.patch > > To apply this patch, use -p6 like so: > > cd work/my/kernel/tree/sys > patch -p6 < path/to/patch/file/ucred.patch > > -- > > John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
