kernel panic

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:41:03PM -0400, Scot Loach wrote:
> Yesterday I had a kernel panic on a FreeBSD 4.7 system.  Looking at the core
> dump, it was caused by a corrupted uidinfo pointer referenced by a tcp pcb.
> I searched through the archives and found an identical stack trace in this
> message from 2000:
> 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=322837+0+archive/2000/freebsd-s
> table/20000625.freebsd-stable
> 
> This was apparently fixed by a patch discussed in this thread.
> 
> http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/171/2000/11/0/4718890/
> 
> The patch was applied to version 1.66 and 1.67 of /sys/kern/kern_resource.c
> 
> I browsed through the CVS for these changes, but found no evidence of them
> ever being merged to RELENG_4.
> 
> This is a real memory corruption in the kernel.  If these changes were never
> merged, does anyone know wny?  Can anyone suggest a course of action to
> resolve this? 

It looks like most of the content of those commits were 5.0 specific,
but you'd have to ask the committer about strategies for merging the
behaviour.

Kris

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