kern/51016: kernel panic: ufsdirhash_lookup: bad offset in hash array

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

The following reply was made to PR kern/51016; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at toybox.placo.com>
To: <alexovch at ic.kharkov.ua>
Cc: <freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: RE: kern/51016: kernel panic: ufsdirhash_lookup: bad offset in hash array
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 11:44:45 -0700

 >If some port can cause a system crash it's probably a kernel 
 >security bug and 
 >it's have to be fixed imho.
 
 This is true if the port crashes on every FreeBSD system it
 is tried on.  However if your system is the only one that is
 crashing then it's most likely something specific to your
 system.  Many times hardware problems with hardware, or device
 driver bugs, can hand back garbage to the kernel and cause a
 panic.  You should include a dmesg printout so we can see the
 kind of hardware your running.
 
 Since the leafnode+ maintainer obviously is running
 leafnode he can confirm if there's any history of crashing.
 
 I've also compiled and installed leafnode myself with no ill
 effects, although I don't currently use it, I use NewsCache.
 
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 Ted Mittelstaedt                                       tedm at toybox.placo.com