Re: Rumko's SMB panic

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 04:49:08PM +0100, Hiten Pandya wrote:
>
> > The vnlru kernel daemon used to be a process before and now it is a
> > pure thread.  Not many (only two) file systems require cred info in
> > the VOP_INACTIVE path; smbfs (CIFS) and nwfs (Netware).
>
>
> At least CIFS should be sinced with FreeBSD first, we are mixing a lot
> of updates. It should check whether a process is associated with and
> otherwise use some default magic. That might mean it has to cache the
> credentials of the initial processes.
>
> Joerg

	That basically means going down introducing a function path, i.e.
	cred_select(9) or something like that.  But maybe passing the
	credential of the process through the VOP layer might be a better
	idea.

	This way, we can move the magic of ucred selection into one place
	and not have arbitrary function calls all over the place.

					Hiten Pandya