On 13-Aug-2003 Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
Gang,
When the copyout() in sendsig() fails and we call sigexit(), we get
into the following LOR:
lock order reversal
1st 0xe000300ffca8 sigacts (sigacts) @ kern/subr_trap.c:260
2nd 0xe0b75250 Giant (Giant) @ kern/kern_sig.c:2407
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:34:15PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
sendsig() on ia64 drops the lock around the copyout, see line 921 in
machdep.c. It is not reacquired again until the very end of the
function. You could change the assert at the top of the function to
say that sigacts is not
