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: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:47:17 +0900 (JST)

 > YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
 > >> btw: can't we solve the problem for netbsd-4 with SAVENAME?
 > > 
 > > if it's enough for you, it can.  i don't know.
 > 
 > it's the same, because namei() can already do this for us.
 
 same as what?
 
 > in check_exec() it's an obvious fix. in sys_unlink() we can add SAVENAME
 > and PNBUF_PUT() for error cases. in rename_files() we can do the same,
 > but it seems it already passes SAVESTART. are SAVENAME and SAVESTART
 > mutually exclusive?
 > 
 > > i still don't understand why you want to feed saved pathname to veriexec.
 > 
 > because otherwise the log messages are meaningless...
 > 
 > -e.
 
 then, you don't care if it's an original pathname or not?
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi