Re: PPP is not SMP safe in 2.2.X, Oops

From: Mitchell Blank Jr (mitch@sfgoth.com)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 03:45:12 EST


Oleg Drokin wrote:
> It seems PPP is not SMP safe in 2.2.X

Hmmm... looks like you're right. Someone is stepping on ppp->tpkt in between
the time ppp_tty_push called ppp_async_encode and it was done with the packet.

  ppp_tty_flush_output - seems unlikely. I don't know if its actually SMP
    safe, but you're probably not getting flushes
  ppp_async_release - could be... does this happen perchance when a connection
    is being closed?
  another ppp_tty_push - uh, I really hope ppp->tty_pushing isn't the only
    thing serializing access here.. that doesn't look healthy to me.

-Mitch

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