From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat May 13 4:40:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E8F37BD58 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 04:40:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id EAA43814; Sat, 13 May 2000 04:40:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 04:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005131140.EAA43814@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Bruce Evans Subject: Re: kern/10172 Reply-To: Bruce Evans Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/10172; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans To: hoek@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/10172 Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 22:28:40 +1000 (EST) > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: hoek > State-Changed-When: Mon May 8 19:24:16 PDT 2000 > State-Changed-Why: > BDE has noted that at the time, kern/sys_pipe.c was/is sloppy when > it runs out of memory (msg-id: > ). A number > of changes have been made to sys_pipe.c since then, although it's not > clear that any of them necessarily fix this bug. However, since this The panic is still there. It's for running out of kvm, which is probably fatal for other reasons. To test running out of kvm, I think the namespace cache bug can be exploited, except under RELENG_3 which has the vfs.cache.maxaliases hack. I'll remind phk and alfred. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message