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To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:09:42 +0200
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Subject: Re: kernel: bad malloc : 4 
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In message <20030413140647.GA18474@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, "Christoph 
P. Kukulies" writes:
>On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:53:11PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>> 
>> During boot, I suspect when an interface goes up (ng0?, wi0?) -
>> I'm using mpd (vpn) and thought I'd better recompile mpd but the
>> message is still there with a yesterday cvsuped kernel and -current.
>> 
>> The message isn't logged in total, so I'll probably have to write
>> it down next time unless someone knows already the culprit.
>
>Here is what I could type off the screen:
>
>Bad malloc flags: 4

This means that malloc() was called with M_DONTWAIT which is a mbuf
allocator flags.

>Stack backtrace:
>backtrace(...)
>malloc(..)
>ng_ksocket(...)

I can't find a function called just "ng_ksocket()" but there are a
bunch called "ng_ksocket_BLA()" I guess it must be one of them.

A cursory glance doesn't reveal a culprit to me.

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