At Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:01:30 +0000 (UTC),
Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> On the 8th August [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned he was getting a panic
> with FreeBSD inside VMware where _mtx_lock is being called with a NULL
> mutex from spec_getpages. I'm also seeing this, 100% reproducible, on real
> hardware. (see message ID [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the
> original posters email and jhb's reply) For me, Sysinstall panics during
> the extraction of the base package:
This seems to be fixed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can install it on my VMware after
this commit.
> alc 2003/08/22 10:50:32 PDT
>
> FreeBSD src repository
>
> Modified files:
> sys/fs/specfs spec_vnops.c
> Log:
> Use the requested page's object field instead of the vnode's. In some
> cases, the vnode's object field is not initialized leading to a NULL
> pointer dereference when the object is locked.
>
> Tested by: rwatson
>
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.208 +5 -2 src/sys/fs/specfs/spec_vnops.c
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> // FreeBSD Project
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