Re: [issue1196] mount_null twice in a row panics

[Johannes Hofmann <johannes.hofmann@xxxxxx>]

Nicolas Thery <nthery@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/1/7 Sascha Wildner <sinknull@crater.dragonflybsd.org>:
>>
>> Sascha Wildner <saw@online.de> added the comment:
>>
>> Yes it's reproducible still. Could it be that it happens because this is
>> a HAMMER filesystem and /usr is already a null mount?
> 
> Maybe as I tried on UFS.

I just tried it in a vkernel and the problem occurs if the
null-mounted directory is on HAMMER.
In that case during the second mount_null call,

VFS_ROOT(mp, &newdp) called from checkdirs() in turn called from sys_mount() 
tries to acquire the same lock, that was already acquired by vn_lock()
from sys_mount() directly.

Doing checkdirs() after vn_unlock(vp) makes the problem go away, but
of course it might not be allowed to call checkdirs() without the lock
protection.

 Johannes