global and allocated variables. This strategy is derived from work
originally developed by BSDi for BSD/OS, and applied to FreeBSD by Sam
Leffler:
- Add unp_mtx, a global mutex which will protect all UNIX domain socket
related variables, structures, etc.
- Add UNP_LOCK(), UNP_UNLOCK(), UNP_LOCK_ASSERT() macros.
- Acquire unp_mtx on entering most UNIX domain socket code,
drop/re-acquire around calls into VFS, and release it on return.
- Avoid performing sodupsockaddr() while holding the mutex, so in general
move to allocating storage before acquiring the mutex to copy the data.
- Make a stack copy of the xucred rather than copying out while holding
unp_mtx. Copy the peer credential out after releasing the mutex.
- Add additional assertions of vnode locks following VOP_CREATE().
A few notes:
- Use of an sx lock for the file list mutex may cause problems with regard
to unp_mtx when garbage collection passed file descriptors.
- The locking in unp_pcblist() for sysctl monitoring is correct subject to
the unpcb zone not returning memory for reuse by other subsystems
(consistent with similar existing concerns).
- Sam's version of this change, as with the BSD/OS version, made use of
both a global lock and per-unpcb locks. However, in practice, the
global lock covered all accesses, so I have simplified out the unpcb
locks in the interest of getting this merged faster (reducing the
overhead but not sacrificing granularity in most cases). We will want
to explore possibilities for improving lock granularity in this code in
the future.
Submitted by: sam
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundatiuon
Obtained from: BSD/OS 5 snapshot provided by BSDi
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