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Date:      Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:01:28 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 224646] Attempts to load non-PAE modules into a PAE-kernel should be rejected
Message-ID:  <bug-224646-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 224646
           Summary: Attempts to load non-PAE modules into a PAE-kernel
                    should be rejected
           Product: Base System
           Version: 11.1-STABLE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: mi@FreeBSD.org

When a module is built outside of the normal "make kernel" process, it may =
not
have the PAE defined. There may also be a problem in the other direction.

I was recently bitten by this as documented in Bug #224616 -- vboxguest.ko
installed by the emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions would load, but fail to
initialize itself with an incomprehensible -- and easy to miss --
error-message.

The port-maintainer(s) may fix the problem with the port, but the kldload
and/or kernel need to detect such miscompilations and reject attempts to lo=
ad
the module -- with an easy to understand error.

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