The following reply was made to PR kern/33438; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: thorpej@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/33438: KASSERT at line 1274 in subr_autoconf.c
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 01:46:32 +0200

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 On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 11:35:00PM +0000, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
 > >Number:         33438
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       KASSERT at line 1274 in subr_autoconf.c
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sun May 07 23:35:00 +0000 2006
 > >Originator:     Lennart Augustsson
 > >Release:        NetBSD 3.99.19
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > System: NetBSD bamse.augustsson.net 3.99.19 NetBSD 3.99.19 (BAMSE) #1: Su=
 n May 7 17:41:53 EDT 2006 lennart@bamse.augustsson.net:/sys/arch/i386/compi=
 le/BAMSE i386
 > Architecture: i386
 > Machine: i386
 > >Description:
 > 	I'm not exactly sure of the circumstances, but the vnd device
 > 	triggers the KASSERT(dev->dv_properties !=3D 0) in device_detach().
 > 	The problem was introduced in version 1.112 of subr_autoconf.c.
 
 That's because config_attach_pseudo() doesn't initialize
 dv_properties.  tap(4) will have the same problem (I'm not sure there
 are other uses of config_detach on pseudo-devices).
 
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