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Date:      Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:30:00 -0600
From:      Karl Denninger  <karl@mcs.net>
To:        Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
Cc:        Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 971208 and the nfs rollback didn't fix it...
Message-ID:  <19971210193000.15751@mcs.net>
In-Reply-To: <19971210232302.35402@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 11:23:02PM %2B0100
References:  <867m9c4zp5.fsf@bitbox.follo.net> <199712102218.QAA09186@home.dragondata.com> <19971210232302.35402@follo.net>

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On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 11:23:02PM +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 04:18:50PM -0600, Kevin Day wrote:
> > > Yes.  Userland programs should NEVER be able to crash the kernel,
> > > especially not running as users (instead of root).
> > > 
> > > Now - more details :-)  Do you get a kernel panic when it crash?
> > 
> > 90% of the time, it's just a reboot., No crash, just jumps straight to the
> > memory test. The other 10% it give a 'fault on nofault entry' panic. 

Bingo.  Fault on nofault entry is the NFS client code problem.  Roll back 
to 1.41 of nfs_bio.c (as I suggested before) and it should go away.

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