Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:58:30 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dump(8) (vfs_object_create() panics: found the problem) Message-ID: <XFMail.010327165830.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200103272026.f2RKQTf80723@gratis.grondar.za>
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On 27-Mar-01 Mark Murray wrote: >> Ok, as I said earlier, only the pointer to the vnop function table is >> spammed, the rest of the vnode is ok. I tracked this down to the big >> /dev/random overhaul commits of March 11. Removing 'device random' >> from my kernel gets rid of the panic but breaks ssh. :( A kernel just >> before the Mar 11 /dev/random commits boots fine, and one just after >> panics. :( Hopefully Mark can trace down where the data corruption is >> coming from. I'm willing to test any patches. > > Very weird. > > Please comment out all the *rijndael* function calls in hash.c and > see if that fixes anything? (I'm suspecting a stack-smash in the > rijndael encryption routines). I've narrowed it down to the rijndael_blockEncrypt() in yarrow_encrypt(). Probably it is a buffer overflow of the d_out buffer passed in to that function. Now I'm off to check all the callers of yarrow_encrypt(). -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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