Don't acquire sysctlmemlock in userland_sysctl() when the old value

pointer is NULL, as in that case there are no userland pages that
could potentially be wired.  It is common for old to be NULL and
oldlenp to be non-NULL in calls to userland_sysctl(), as this is used
to probe for the length of a variable-length sysctl entry before
retrieving a value.  Note that it is typical for such calls to be made
with an uninitialized value in *oldlenp, so sysctlmemlock was
essentially being acquired at random (depending on the uninitialized
value in *oldlenp being > PAGE_SIZE or not) for these calls prior to
this patch.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2987
Reviewed by: mjg, kib
Approved by: jmallett (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
This commit is contained in:
pkelsey 2015-07-06 16:07:21 +00:00
parent 284d3e54fa
commit be4a1874ae

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@ -1784,7 +1784,7 @@ userland_sysctl(struct thread *td, int *name, u_int namelen, void *old,
ktrsysctl(name, namelen);
#endif
if (req.oldlen > PAGE_SIZE) {
if (req.oldptr && req.oldlen > PAGE_SIZE) {
memlocked = 1;
sx_xlock(&sysctlmemlock);
} else