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authortruckman <truckman@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-28 19:59:31 +0000
committertruckman <truckman@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-28 19:59:31 +0000
commitb1555a27432152cc7817d0c592bbcebf95fdfd19 (patch)
tree6dda6f0898c9f15fca929e63e72b3882862e67e1 /sys/kern/kern_fork.c
parent5bd1876975f34760da2eea4bfce9c738127d36ca (diff)
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Wire the sysctl output buffer before grabbing any locks to prevent
SYSCTL_OUT() from blocking while locks are held. This should only be done when it would be inconvenient to make a temporary copy of the data and defer calling SYSCTL_OUT() until after the locks are released.
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/kern/kern_fork.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys/kern/kern_fork.c b/sys/kern/kern_fork.c
index 53b3eed..18644df 100644
--- a/sys/kern/kern_fork.c
+++ b/sys/kern/kern_fork.c
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ sysctl_kern_randompid(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
{
int error, pid;
+ sysctl_wire_old_buffer(req, sizeof(int));
sx_xlock(&allproc_lock);
pid = randompid;
error = sysctl_handle_int(oidp, &pid, 0, req);
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