Can somebody please reply to this email. basically, can udp_detach() and udp_send() execute simultaneously for a process with multiple threads? if yes, then inp reference in udp_send() will be stale if udp_detach() free's the inp?
Thanks, Vasanth On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:53 AM, vasanth rao naik sabavat < vasanth.raon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In case of a Multicore cpu system running a multithreaded process. > > For protocol control blocks there is no protection provided in the FreeBSD > 9. For example, udp_close() and udp_send() access the inp before taking the > lock. Couldn't this cause the inp inconsistency on a multithreaded process > running on multicore cpu system? > > Say, If the two threads of a process are concurrently executing socket > send and socket close say on a udp connection (this can happen in case of > poorly written user code.). > udp_close() will access the inp on one cpu and udp_send() will access the > inp on another cpu. it is possible that udp_close() gets the locks first > and free's the inp before udp_send() has a chance to run? > > Am I missing anything? > > Thanks, > Vasanth > > > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
