I was unable to boot SMP hurd-amd64 reliably on my hardware platform
or indeed virtual machine. Boot would hang close to login prompt when
ext2fs server crashes with an exception. There was a page fault
failure occurring with user code dereferencing a pointer whose address
had been removed from the vm_map.

There are 2 instances of looping around 'struct rlock_list' where the
next list item is potentially accessed after the current item has been
freed. I've altered the for loops to while ones to manage the list
traversal to avoid the free memory reads.

There are a number of places where the code has changed from using
continue to simply exiting the 'if else if' blocks. I've probably not
exercised all of these instances in simple compilation testing but I
no longer see evidence of this particular probleme.

Mike.

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