The following reply was made to PR kern/34648; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, ndehne@gmail.com
Subject: Re: kern/34648: Kernel panic when using NFS root and configuring an interface that needs firmware
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:53:05 -0700

 On Sep 30, 2006, at 3:30 AM, Elad Efrat wrote:
 
 >  I attached the patch I sent to Nino for testing.
 
 firmload needs to use the equivalent of super-user creds.
 
 If NOCRED and FSCRED are no longer valid to be used in the kernel,  
 then please create an appropriate kauth_cred_*() routine to replace  
 their functionality.
 
 >
 >  -e.
 >
 >  --
 >  Elad Efrat
 >
 >  --Boundary_(ID_f7yPnOkye6SCbWj9Ar2dYQ)
 >  Content-type: text/plain; name=firmload.c.diff
 >  Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
 >  Content-disposition: inline; filename=firmload.c.diff
 >
 >  Index: firmload.c
 >  ===================================================================
 >  RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/dev/firmload.c,v
 >  retrieving revision 1.3
 >  diff -u -p -r1.3 firmload.c
 >  --- firmload.c	14 May 2006 21:42:26 -0000	1.3
 >  +++ firmload.c	29 Sep 2006 21:10:24 -0000
 >  @@ -258,17 +258,17 @@ firmware_open(const char *drvname, const
 >
 >   	vp = nd.ni_vp;
 >
 >  -	error = VOP_GETATTR(vp, &va, FSCRED, curlwp);
 >  +	error = VOP_GETATTR(vp, &va, kauth_cred_get(), curlwp);
 >   	if (error) {
 >   		VOP_UNLOCK(vp, 0);
 >  -		(void)vn_close(vp, FREAD, FSCRED, curlwp);
 >  +		(void)vn_close(vp, FREAD, kauth_cred_get(), curlwp);
 >   		firmware_handle_free(fh);
 >   		return (error);
 >   	}
 >
 >   	if (va.va_type != VREG) {
 >   		VOP_UNLOCK(vp, 0);
 >  -		(void)vn_close(vp, FREAD, FSCRED, curlwp);
 >  +		(void)vn_close(vp, FREAD, kauth_cred_get(), curlwp);
 >   		firmware_handle_free(fh);
 >   		return (EINVAL);
 >   	}
 >  @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ firmware_close(firmware_handle_t fh)
 >   {
 >   	int error;
 >
 >  -	error = vn_close(fh->fh_vp, FREAD, FSCRED, curlwp);
 >  +	error = vn_close(fh->fh_vp, FREAD, kauth_cred_get(), curlwp);
 >   	firmware_handle_free(fh);
 >   	return (error);
 >   }
 >  @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ firmware_read(firmware_handle_t fh, off_
 >   {
 >
 >   	return (vn_rdwr(UIO_READ, fh->fh_vp, buf, len, offset,
 >  -			UIO_SYSSPACE, 0, FSCRED, NULL, curlwp));
 >  +			UIO_SYSSPACE, 0, kauth_cred_get(), NULL, curlwp));
 >   }
 >
 >   /*
 >
 >  --Boundary_(ID_f7yPnOkye6SCbWj9Ar2dYQ)--
 >
 
 -- thorpej