Maksim Yevmenkin wrote this message on Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 18:13 +0000:
> Author: emax
> Date: Mon Mar 24 18:13:41 2014
> New Revision: 263690
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/263690
> 
> Log:
>   change defaule permissions on /dev/devstat. while i'm here remove
>   D_NEEDGIANT flag

I know that the following change is part of the remove D_NEEDGIANT, but
I'm puzzled how this code either worked before, or continues to work..

It looks like pagelist was suppose to be protected by devstat_mutex,
but previously wasn't and that this is fixing that bug, is this
correct?

> @@ -482,13 +481,16 @@ devstat_mmap(struct cdev *dev, vm_ooffse
>  
>       if (nprot != VM_PROT_READ)
>               return (-1);
> +     mtx_lock(&devstat_mutex);
>       TAILQ_FOREACH(spp, &pagelist, list) {
>               if (offset == 0) {
>                       *paddr = vtophys(spp->stat);
> +                     mtx_unlock(&devstat_mutex);
>                       return (0);
>               }
>               offset -= PAGE_SIZE;
>       }
> +     mtx_unlock(&devstat_mutex);
>       return (-1);
>  }
>  

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