Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 01:11:01 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: somebody has broken sysctlbyname() in -current Message-ID: <19990507171102.DFF581F72@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 May 1999 06:49:31 MST." <99200.926084971@zippy.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> > sysctlbyname("machdep.uc_devlist", buf, &len, NULL, NULL);
>
> Sorry for the vague first bug report; I hadn't collected a reasonable
> crashdump yet. It's in sysctl_machdep_uc_devlist(), specifically
> where it copies id->id_driver->name into a temporary stack variable.
> First time through, this thing's NULL and *boom* we're gone. I'm
> looking into it.
Should be fixed as of a few minutes ago in userconfig.c:
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revision 1.140
date: 1999/05/07 16:54:50; author: peter; state: Exp; lines: +34 -2
Yet another kludge to maintain the isa_device illusion, this time malloc
an isa_driver and name pointer so the uc_devlist sysctl can get to it.
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Cheers,
-Peter
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