Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 12:18:05PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > I'm surprised at your proposal.
> > 
> > If this condition gets detected, why do you think it is fine to
> > continue?  A kernel data structure is seriously corrupted.
> 
> I'm not saying it's fine, sorry if my mail was too long to read. ;)
> 
> 1. I'm not 100% sure the checks that trigger are correct, after all
>   they're not using volatile reads.  Maaaaybe that's the bug but I
>   have no idea right now.
>   
> 2. Kurt had posted this on ports@ earlier, then on bugs@, so far no
>   one has a fix and you recently tagged 7.9.  This diff is an attempt
>   to make kmos' and users life easier before next release.  Obviously
>   everybody would be happier with a proper fix.  Maybe this admittedly
>   incomplete fix will spark a discussion?

Maybe.

But you cannot delete that ddb enter.  You could replace it with a
panic.  If you continue to run after that printf, the system will just
crash in other unknown ways which are more difficult to debug.

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