[Drbd-dev] DRBD-8: crash due to incorrect thread termination

Philipp Reisner philipp.reisner at linbit.com
Fri Sep 15 15:19:16 CEST 2006


Am Freitag, 15. September 2006 00:49 schrieb Graham, Simon:
> I reported the issue with threads being stopped synchronously from the
> wrong context a while ago but now I've found an actual case that causes
> a panic() - if BOTH sides are detached, and you attach one side, the
> other will crash apparently because the code attempts to synchronously
> stop the sender thread, fails, then discards all the network connection
> data as the sender thread is still attempting to use it...
>
> Just thought I'd pass on an easy test case (since I don't know how to
> fix this one ;-).
>

Great, a test case, is a nice motivation to fix the issue ! But I am 
running out of time today, probably on Monday...

-phil
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