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Date:      Fri, 08 Apr 2005 07:42:01 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bug in geom_ctl errors handling. 
Message-ID:  <23986.1112938921@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Apr 2005 01:44:24 %2B0200." <20050407234424.GV837@darkness.comp.waw.pl> 

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Good catch, go for it!

In message <20050407234424.GV837@darkness.comp.waw.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek writes:
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>Hi.
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>I finally tracked down a bug which I was seeing from time to time.
>If you saw 'Bad address' as an result of some geom(8) command, you saw
>the bug.
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>The problem we got here, is that copyout(9) was done not from user
>process, but from eg. g_event thread, where address space is different.
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>Here is the patch to fix it:
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>	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/geom_ctl.c.patch
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>Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
>pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
>FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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