The following reply was made to PR kern/37189; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrew Doran <ad@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/37189
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:39:10 +0000

 On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:10:04AM +0000, Scott Ellis wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/37189; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Scott Ellis <scotte@warped.com>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: RE: kern/37189
 > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:05:01 -0800
 > 
 >  This problem seems to go away (or at least be drastically reduced in 
 >  frequency) if I run sync(8) every 10 seconds while Gallery is processing 
 >  the pictures.
 >  
 >  Since I'm using softdep, maybe this indicates an issue around trickle 
 >  sync?  Who knows...
 
 I believe this is a classic use-after-free problem that's only exposed
 with the additional assertions that come along with the mutexes. I'm still
 investigating.
 
 Andrew