Re: kern/49506: panic in bpf

["Kamil Rytarowski" <n54%gmx.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/49506; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Kamil Rytarowski" <n54%gmx.com@localhost>
To: "Alexander Nasonov" <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/49506: panic in bpf
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 03:13:53 +0100

 Alexander Nasonov wrote:
 > Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
 > >  If you think your fix resolves the problem please apply it and close the report. If I will ever reproduce it I will file a new PR.
 > 
 > By "your fix" you mean Ryota Ozaki's patch, is it correct? I believe
 > this patch isn't necessary if bpf is used correctly.
 > 
 > I remember fixes for some related crashes, e.g. 
 > 
 > PR/49190: bpf_deliver: set scratch memory store in bpf_args_t.
 > 
 > Your crash might be one of them.
 > 
 > Alex
 >
 
 Ah you might be right. The fixed bugs seem relevant and my report can be closed as old.
 
 Please take this report as a positive feedback that these fixes most probably fixes real life bugs (not just theory of NULL pointer dereference).
 
 Regards!