Module Name: src
Committed By: martin
Date: Tue Aug 1 14:53:54 UTC 2023
Modified Files:
src/sys/kern [netbsd-10]: subr_autoconf.c
Log Message:
Pull up following revision(s) (requested by riastradh in ticket #285):
sys/kern/subr_autoconf.c: revision 1.308
autoconf(9): Avoid potential ABA bug in config_makeroom.
When we unlock alldevs_lock to allocate a new cd_devs array nsp,
other threads may have:
1. freed the old one (osp),
2. done some other memory allocation,
3. allocated a new _larger_ array whose address happens to concide
with osp (e.g., in (2) the page was recycled for a different pool
cache), and
4. updated cd_devs back to osp but increased cd_ndevs.
In that case, the memory may be corrupted: we try to copy the wrong
number of device_t pointers into nsp and we free osp with the wrong
(stale) length.
Avoid this by checking whether cd_ndevs has changed too -- if not,
osp might have been recycled but at least the lengths we're about to
copy and free are still correct so there's no harm in an ABA
situation.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.306.4.1 -r1.306.4.2 src/sys/kern/subr_autoconf.c
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