[PANIC] sha256_initial_hash_value

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Mon Apr 4 18:08:10 PDT 2005


David O'Brien wrote:
> Kernel built 4-April-2004 8:00AM PDT.
> 
> Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
> 
> sha256_inital_hash_value()
> VOP_OPEN_APV()
> vn_open_cred()
> vn_open()
> kern_open()
> open()
> syscall()

Don't blame sha256 -- sha256_initial_hash_value is data, not
code, so VOP_OPEN_APV must be following a mangled function
pointer, and it's just luck that it ended up where it did.

Colin Percival


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