From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 7 10:11:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB4B614D6D for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 10:11:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF581F72; Sat, 8 May 1999 01:11:01 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: somebody has broken sysctlbyname() in -current In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 May 1999 06:49:31 MST." <99200.926084971@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 01:11:01 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990507171102.DFF581F72@spinner.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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: ---------------------------- 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. ---------------------------- Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message