The following reply was made to PR kern/36548; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
To: scw@netbsd.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/36548: Trailing NULs written to files over NFS
Date: Thu,  5 Jul 2007 21:59:11 +0900 (JST)

 > On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:13:24 YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
 > 
 > > if the problem is new, can you narrow down which commit introduced
 > > it? a culprit is nfs_bio.c rev.1.155, but i'm not sure.
 > 
 > I've narrowed it down to the yamt-idlelwp branch merge. :-/
 > 
 > A kernel from before the merge is fine, but one from immediately after 
 > fails as described.
 > 
 > Cheers, Steve
 
 then, it's likely an arm MD thing?
 
 i'm not familiar with it.  any takers? :)
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi