As netintro(4) explains, this copies a bunch of data from the global interface list its per-interface address lists.
All of this is never written to by ifconf(), protected by the net lock and documented as such in the struct comments already. Feedback? OK? diff --git a/sys/net/if.c b/sys/net/if.c index f3697b78aed..5dd40f97518 100644 --- a/sys/net/if.c +++ b/sys/net/if.c @@ -2382,11 +2382,9 @@ ifioctl_get(u_long cmd, caddr_t data) switch(cmd) { case SIOCGIFCONF: - KERNEL_LOCK(); NET_LOCK_SHARED(); error = ifconf(data); NET_UNLOCK_SHARED(); - KERNEL_UNLOCK(); return (error); case SIOCIFGCLONERS: error = if_clone_list((struct if_clonereq *)data);