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To: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org>
Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org,
	morganw@chemicals.tacorp.com, phk@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_stats.c
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Akinori MUSHA writes:
 > At Wed, 1 Nov 2000 22:08:26 -0800 (PST),
 > Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
 > > marcel      2000/11/01 22:08:26 PST
 > > 
 > >   Modified files:
 > >     sys/compat/linux     linux_stats.c 
 > >   Log:
 > >   Fix linux_ustat syscall. We only have cdevs now, so looking
 > >   for a block device isn't that useful anymore.
 > >   
 > >   Reported by: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemicals.tacorp.com>
 > >   Submitted by: gallatin
 > >   Acknowledged by: phk
 > 
 > After this change, it panics when you perform stat against a linux
 > block device node.  Actually, emulators/vmware2 port creates some
 > block device nodes in /compat/linux/dev, so all the vmware2 users
 > still have ones installed.  And when they hit `ls /compat/linux/dev'
 > or `pkg_delete vmware-2.0.x.yyy', they will see their boxen panic. ;)
 > 
 > I'm 100% sure this change caused the panic because the stack trace
 > showed it panicked at vfinddev() called from linux_ustat().
 > 

Hmm..  I seem to remember seeing something similar yesterday when my
alpha was booting a brand new kernel with a 2 day-old userland.
It was crashing in vfinddev called out of savecore and dev_mkdb.


Thanks,

Drew


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