hmm,
i've posted the attached mail a week ago to this list, but got no
response. could someone please comment on this issue?
thanks,
christian
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Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 03:26:46 +0200 (CEST)
From: Christian Carstensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dynamic sysctl problem and proposed hot fix
hi,
i just came across a problem with dynamic sysctls:
when unloading a driver module that used dyn sysctls, my system paniced
with "oid too high". that problem is caused by sysctl_ctx_free() in
kern/kern_sysctl.c, that first deregisters all oids in the list to see if
a error occurs. then, all oids are being reregistered and, if there was no
error, they're finally removed.
during the second phase, sysctl_register_oid(e1->entry) is called with
n := e1->entry->oid_number being the old oid number with n > CTL_AUTO_START.
that leads to panic("static sysctl too high") in sysctl_register_oid.
one approach might be to initialize the oid_number field to contain the
value OID_AUTO before calling sysctl_regiser_oid, but i'm unsure about the
side effects of doing that in sysctl_ctx_free().
alternatively, the "old" oid number could be reused, the following patch
should do, but it's just a workaround.
best,
christian
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Index: kern_sysctl.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c,v
retrieving revision 1.113
diff -r1.113 kern_sysctl.c
83a84,96
> static struct sysctl_oid *
> sysctl_find_oidnumber(const int number, struct sysctl_oid_list *list)
> {
> struct sysctl_oid *oidp;
>
> SLIST_FOREACH(oidp, list, oid_link) {
> if (oidp->oid_number == number) {
> return (oidp);
> }
> }
> return (NULL);
> }
>
125c138,139
< panic("static sysctl oid too high: %d", oidp->oid_number);
---
> if (sysctl_find_oidnumber(oidp->oid_number, parent))
> panic("static sysctl oid too high: %d", oidp->oid_number);
177c191
< if (error)
---
> if (error)
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