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Date:      Mon, 8 Dec 2003 13:40:56 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Martin <nakal@web.de>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is "vm_fault" a kernel bug here?
Message-ID:  <20031208214056.GA52416@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1070918549.702.22.camel@klotz.local>
References:  <1070918549.702.22.camel@klotz.local>

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On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:22:30PM +0100, Martin wrote:
>=20
> Here is the result of a read access on a file, which is obviously
> unreadable:
>=20
> acd0: FAILURE - READ BIG status=3D51<READY,DSC,ERROR> sensekey=3DMEDIUM
> ERROR error=3D4<ABORTED>
> vm_fault: pager read error, pid 606 (cp)
> cp: filename: Bad address
>=20
> I want to report it, because of the "vm_fault", it sounds "scary".
> Is this a correct behaviour or a bug in the kernel?

That's just what happens when an error is detected by the disk driver.
This can be caused by hardware failure or incompatibility, or a driver
bug.

Kris

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