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To: Vinod Kashyap <vkashyap@3WARE.com>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Apr 2004 11:10:46 -0800."
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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 22:08:49 +0200
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Subject: Re: there is a bug in twe driver or disk subsystem for sure 
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In message <A1964EDB64C8094DA12D2271C04B812601532143@tabby.3ware.com>, Vinod Ka
shyap writes:
>
>The 3ware (twe) driver is obviously not causing this panic.
>It's something else (at line 128 in file /usr/src/sys/udm_dbg.c).

>Memory modified after free 0x788f400(508) val=20202020 @ 0xe788f400
>panic: Most recently used by devbuf
>at line 128 in file /usr/src/sys/udm_dbg.c

You're wrong vinod, the bug _is_ most likely in the 3ware driver.

What happens is that some piece of RAM is passed to free(9) and
some code subsequently writes to it.  We only discover this when
we try to reuse it next time and it doesn't contain the correct
"magic debug pattern".

Please compile your kernel with DIAGNOSTICS to enable the extended
malloc(9) debugging functions.

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