On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 08:23:38PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote: > > In ufs_ihashget(), vget() can return a vnode that has been vclean'ed because > > vget() can sleep. After vget returns, check that vp is still connected with > > ip, and that ip still points to the inode we want. This fix the NULL > > pointer dereference in ufs_fhtovp() I've been seeing on a NFS server. > > Um, hold the phone. The whole point of vget() is to provide race-free > access to the weak vnode reference held by the file system. Are you > saying this does not hold anymore?
It depends on what you mean with "race-free". If you mean that the vnode returned by vget() can't be recygled, I think this is true. If you mean that vget() can't return a clean vnode then this is false: vget() can sleep in vn_lock(), and it releases the v_interlock mutex before sleeping. While sleeping vclean() can VOP_RECLAIM() the vnode, even if v_usecount is > 1. -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --