Re: kern/44144 (ifconfig causes assertion failure in vfs_lookup.c)

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/44144; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/44144 (ifconfig causes assertion failure in vfs_lookup.c)
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:21:32 +0200

 On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, David Holland wrote:
 >  Looks like garden-variety bad error branching. With luck this will fix
 >  both that problem and a second bad error case:
 
 I applied that patch, and now I get this:
 
 # ifconfig wpi0 up
 wpi0: ERROR: could not read firmware file
 panic: free: addr 0x0 not within kmem_map
 [...]
 db{0}> bt
 breakpoint ...
 panic ...
 kern_free ...
 wpi_init ... at netbsd:wpi_init+0x6fe
 ether_ioctl ...
 [...]
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)