kernel bug in flock
Doug McCallum
mccallum at nbires.UUCP
Tue Apr 10 04:39:54 AEST 1984
Subject: flock panics kernel when given invalid parameter
Index: sys/sys/kern_descrip.c 4.2BSD
Description:
The flock system call can cause the 4.2 kernel to panic when
given an invalid second parameter. This occurs only when the
file in question is already locked with LOCK_SH and a second
call to flock where the second parameter does not contain any
of (LOCK_UN|LOCK_EX|LOCK_SH) set.
Repeat-By:
The problem can be shown with:
...
flock(fd, LOCK_SH);
...
flock(fd, 0);
...
Fix:
The following context diff of kern_descrip.c prevents the panics:
*** kern_descrip.c Mon Apr 9 08:16:14 1984
--- /sys/sys/kern_descrip.c Wed Mar 28 14:35:47 1984
***************
*** 405,414
u.u_error = EOPNOTSUPP;
return;
}
- if ((uap->how & (LOCK_UN|LOCK_EX|LOCK_SH){
- u.u_error = EINVAL; /* ??? */
- return;
- }
if (uap->how & LOCK_UN) {
ino_unlock(fp, FSHLOCK|FEXLOCK);
return;
--- 405,410 -----
u.u_error = EOPNOTSUPP;
return;
}
if (uap->how & LOCK_UN) {
ino_unlock(fp, FSHLOCK|FEXLOCK);
return;
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