The following reply was made to PR kern/35278; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
To: elad@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/35278: veriexec sometimes feeds user va to log(9)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:32:06 +0900 (JST)

 > YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
 > 
 > > i don't think it's a good idea to sprinkle these redundant pnbuf allocation
 > > and copyinstr.
 > > 
 > > if you really want to have a functionality to keep a copy of the original
 > > pathname, it should be done by making namei always use a caller-supplied
 > > buffer directly (and internal buffer only for symlink handing), rather
 > > than a hack like this, IMO.
 > 
 > wouldn't that mean changes to either namei() api and/or struct nameidata
 > abi?
 > 
 > -e.
 
 yes.
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi