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Date:      Mon, 29 May 2006 00:30:09 -0400
From:      "James Tanis" <jtanis@pycoder.org>
To:        "Michael Ortmann" <mortmann@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic: trap: memory address not aligned (tap/if_bridge/openvpn -> kgdb information)
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I don't know, think its the blind leading the blind here. I think you
need someone wiser in the force then I :P.

On 5/28/06, Michael Ortmann <mortmann@googlemail.com> wrote:
> James Tanis schrieb:
> > I don't really know why it has to be the kernel's fault as you said,
> > the error is memory address is not aligned, which unlike i386, is
> > illegal under sparc32/64. I'm no kernel hacker either, but it seems to
> > me that the userland program is attempting to access memory at an
> > inappropriate address. Honestly the error could be caused by anything,
> > but if you have searched Google (and you should have by now) you'll
> > see the error could be cause by a multitude of things, this was just
> > one idea. I've never even used openvpn. I may try installing it today
> > or tomorrow, if I put freebsd back on my ultra60 just to see if I get
> > the same thing.
>
> i thought its the kernels fault because a userland program should never
> make the kernel panic, but segfault itself. else any userprogram could
> just write to an unaligned address and therefore crash the system - thus
> any user could crash the system.
>
> ok, openvpn is suid root but it should not access the kernels memory in
> any case, should it?
>
> im sure openvpn worked on sparc64/freebsd before, so, i could try out
> older/different openvpn versions and hunt the bug down there. but i
> still feel its not openvpns fault. how can i see if a kerneldriver
> (tap/if_brige) or openvpn leads to the crash? ill try to do ifconfig by
> hand and do what openvpn does, may be i can reproduce the crash that way.=
..
>
> regards,
> Michael Ortmann
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James Tanis
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