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Date:      Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:38:11 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Derek Kuli?ski <takeda@takeda.tk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: stack backtrace
Message-ID:  <20050602233811.GE20397@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1056775349.20050602162730@takeda.tk>
References:  <8910581751.20050529112956@takeda.tk> <20050602073739.GB2756@xor.obsecurity.org> <5010392255.20050602091123@takeda.tk> <20050602180654.GA59076@xor.obsecurity.org> <1056775349.20050602162730@takeda.tk>

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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 04:27:30PM -0700, Derek Kuli?ski wrote:
> Hello Kris,
>=20
> Thursday, June 2, 2005, 11:06:54 AM, you wrote:
>=20
> >> > in 1.141 of ffs_softdep.c you added a call to backtrace() if bp->b_vp
> >> > =3D=3D NULL..you removed it in current in 1.166, but some people are
> >> > seeing it trigger on 5.x
> >> So it's harmless?
> > I don't know, but I presume the debugging code was added for debugging
> > reasons :-)
>=20
> Sorry, I didn't stated precise what I meant.
> Since this code was triggered it means something went wrong, the
> system didn't crash but I'm just wonder if something else could be
> damaged. For me it looks like the problem was somewhere in the disk
> writing code.

It is clearly a condition the original author thought important to
examine when it occurs, since he added the debugging code.  Whether or
not it indicates a problem I do not know.

Kris

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