Subject: Re: kern/33986: UFS_DIRHASH causes rampant kernel memory corruption
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/16/2006 12:10:03
The following reply was made to PR kern/33986; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: kern/33986: UFS_DIRHASH causes rampant kernel memory corruption
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:07:00 +0200
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 12:35:02AM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> I would go along with the theory that UFS_DIRHASH is
> triggering some extant issue elsewhere in the kernel.
I'm thinking this too - PR kern/33630 (at least to me) seems to indicate
that sometimes pool related code corrupts memory, depending on the size
of pool items. It is not clear, however, that this is related to this
PR.
Martin