The following reply was made to PR kern/35524; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: Brian de Alwis <bsd@cs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: kern/35524: panic from free in pathname_get
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:37:45 +0200

 Brian de Alwis wrote:
 
 > diff -w -b -u -r1.79 vfs_lookup.c
 > --- sys/kern/vfs_lookup.c       7 Jan 2007 21:33:24 -0000       1.79
 > +++ sys/kern/vfs_lookup.c       30 Jan 2007 20:39:18 -0000
 > @@ -213,7 +213,8 @@
 >                     NULL);
 >                 if (error) {
 >                         PNBUF_PUT((*path)->pathbuf);
 > -                       free(path, M_TEMP);
 > +                       free(*path, M_TEMP);
 
 this is correct,
 
 > +                       *path = NULL;
 
 can you try reproducing without this line?
 
 >                         return (error);
 >                 }
 >                 (*path)->needfree = TRUE;
 
 -e.