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 21:39:27 +0900 (JST)

 > YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
 > 
 > > if you types '/bin/ls' and it was a symlink to '/bin/anotherls'.
 > 
 > I just tried that:
 > 
 > phyre:elad {6} ln -s /bin/ls myls
 > phyre:elad {7} ./myls
 > 
 > /var/log/messages:
 > Dec 22 13:13:23 phyre /netbsd: Veriexec: Match. [/bin/ls]
 > Dec 22 13:13:23 phyre /netbsd: Veriexec: Match. [/lib/libc.so.12]
 > Dec 22 13:13:23 phyre /netbsd: Veriexec: Match. [[mmap]]
 > 
 > or do you mean something else?
 > 
 > -e.
 
 i meant it.
 
 i thought your intention was to save './myls' in that case.
 (just a guess from your code in vn_open.)
 if it isn't the case, no problem.
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi