Jason Thorpe wrote:

> firmload needs to use the equivalent of super-user creds.

What is "super-user"?

> If NOCRED and FSCRED are no longer valid to be used in the kernel, then
> please create an appropriate kauth_cred_*() routine to replace their
> functionality.

It has nothing to do with kauth(9) whatsoever. This code would have
panic'd regardless. It has to do with passing a pointer that cannot
be dereferenced to NFS code.

-e.

-- 
Elad Efrat