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FreeBSD-EN-05:04.nfs Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: NFS Client may panic when encounted errors
Category: core
Module: nfsclient
Announced: 2005-12-19
Credits: Mohan Srinivasan, Xin LI
Affects: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
Corrected: 2005-12-19 10:58:58 UTC
I. Background
The Network File System (NFS) allows a system to share directories and files
with others over a network. By using this, users and programs can access
files on remote systems almost as if they were local files.
II. Problem Description
Due to a locking issue in nfs_lookup() a call to vrele() might be made
while holding the vnode mutex, which results in kernel panic when doing
VFS operations under certain load patterns.
III. Impact
NFS clients that encountered the load pattern would crash and reboot.
IV. Solution
Do one of the following to update the source tree:
1) Upgrade your affected system to the RELENG_6_0 errata branch dated
after the correction date using cvsup(1) or cvs(1). This is the
preferred method.
2) Obtain the updated files using the cvsweb interface. Cvsweb is a
Web interface to the CVS repository. The URL to the general
interface is "http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/". You can obtain any of
the source files for the RELENG_6_0 branch by going to the src
directory ("http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src") and then selecting
the "RELENG_6_0" branch tag. With the branch tag set navigate
to the files listed below in the "Correction details" section and
download them, making sure you get the correct revision numbers.
Copy the downloaded files into your /usr/src tree.
If using the second procedure you should make sure you have used that
same procedure to download all previous Errata Notices and Security
Advisories. We strongly discourage this procedure due to the problems
that may be caused by not doing that - using the first procedure takes
care of making sure all updates get applied.
Then follow the normal procedures for rebuilding/reinstalling the kernel.
Details about rebuilding/reinstalling are available here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html
V. Correction details
The following list contains the revision numbers of each file that was
corrected in FreeBSD.
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RELENG_6_0
Revision Changes Path
1.416.2.3.2.6 +5 -0 src/UPDATING
1.69.2.8.2.2 +1 -1 src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
1.258.4.1 +1 -1 src/sys/nfsclient/nfs_vnops.c
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