Subject: Re: kern/35278: veriexec sometimes feeds user va to log(9)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/23/2006 17:00:06
The following reply was made to PR kern/35278; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/35278: veriexec sometimes feeds user va to log(9)
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:59:07 +0200
YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>> that sounds very ugly.
>
> i agree. it's why i wanted to forget it. :)
>
>> what filesystems have these semantics?
>
> nfs, for example.
ugh! any plans in sight to fix that? or should we fall back to any
of the previous ideas?
if the latter, unless you object, I'd like just do the PNBUF_GET() +
copyinstr() + PNBUF_PUT() dance where we need them for netbsd-4, and
on the trunk we can look into changing NDINIT()/namei().
-e.