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Author SHA1 Message Date
bapt
21f6fe7ae4 use .Mt to mark up email addresses consistently (part6)
PR:		191174
Submitted by:	Franco Fichtner <franco at lastsummer.de>
2014-06-26 21:44:30 +00:00
attilio
683d7a54ce Fix a deficiency in the selinfo interface:
If a selinfo object is recorded (via selrecord()) and then it is
quickly destroyed, with the waiters missing the opportunity to awake,
at the next iteration they will find the selinfo object destroyed,
causing a PF#.

That happens because the selinfo interface has no way to drain the
waiters before to destroy the registered selinfo object. Also this
race is quite rare to get in practice, because it would require a
selrecord(), a poll request by another thread and a quick destruction
of the selrecord()'ed selinfo object.

Fix this by adding the seldrain() routine which should be called
before to destroy the selinfo objects (in order to avoid such case),
and fix the present cases where it might have already been called.
Sometimes, the context is safe enough to prevent this type of race,
like it happens in device drivers which installs selinfo objects on
poll callbacks. There, the destruction of the selinfo object happens
at driver detach time, when all the filedescriptors should be already
closed, thus there cannot be a race.
For this case, mfi(4) device driver can be set as an example, as it
implements a full correct logic for preventing this from happening.

Sponsored by:	Sandvine Incorporated
Reported by:	rstone
Tested by:	pluknet
Reviewed by:	jhb, kib
Approved by:	re (bz)
MFC after:	3 weeks
2011-08-25 15:51:54 +00:00
njl
491996f810 The struct selinfo pointed to by *sip MUST be zeroed before calling
selrecord() or selwake*().  Otherwise, a panic may occur.

MFC after:	1 day
2007-06-14 22:38:50 +00:00
hmp
6b954a1933 Use 'manual page' instead of 'man page' for consistency.
Approved by:	re (hrs)
2005-06-28 20:15:19 +00:00
ru
a54f2810df mdoc(7) police: minor markup nits. 2002-05-30 13:33:59 +00:00
davidc
9933dcee22 Add a new man page that documents selrecord and selwakeup.
Thanks to: alfred
2002-04-12 06:19:12 +00:00