memory corruption in recent -current?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 11:41:29AM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> I've been working on a BT878 audio driver (first crack is available
> in p4), and with a recent -current (you can sync to my -current as
> it's the one in my workspace, jmg_carbon), I get memory corruption:
> Memory modified after free 0xc2fb1050(12) val=1c @ 0xc2fb1050
> panic: Most recently used by ioctlops
> or:
> Memory modified after free 0xc2ba2b90(12) val=1c @ 0xc2ba2b90
> panic: Most recently used by Unitno
> 
> I went back to a kerenl that is pre-Dec 21st, and I haven't had a single
> panic yet.  I will admit I haven't done a builtworld between the these
> two (the last buildworld matched with the pre-Dec 21st kernel)...  I am
> using kld modules for my testing, so I was building modules against an
> old world, but I don't know of anything that has changed that would
> cause problems..
> 
> Anyone else seeing this?

Use memguard to track down the cause.

Kris
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