The ipfw module does the same thing too. I discovered this while testing
the kernel side of the recent module changes.
Bosko Milekic wrote:
> On my -CURRENT machine,
>
> FreeBSD jehovah 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sat May 13 15:11:13 EDT
> 2000 root@jehovah:/usr/src/sys/compile/JEHOVAH i386
>
> (obviously a little out-dated), I have recently noticed unusual
> problems with the linux module which, by the way, is of the same date.
> The first problem I discovered first came up while building the
> StarOffice5 port. After checking the dependency for linux's libc5, it
> _spontaneously_ reboots. No panic(), hence no debugger. I've never seen
> this sort of behavior before and have no idea what could have caused it.
> However, I noticed a related incident, which I can reproduce. What I
> did was, for kicks, kldunload linux, and then make install the
> staroffice5 port, and this time, I got a page fault and panic() from
> within malloc, which was trying to move something located at an address
> on an unmapped page to a register. I can reproduce this easily at the
> moment, with the following:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> while true; do
> kldload linux;
> kldunload linux;
> done
>
> A quick kldunload linux followed by a quick kldload linux does it on the
> first iteration.
>
> What's more odd is that now, after panic()ing the machine a couple of
> times with the above, I can reproduce the spontaneous reboot easily too,
> by just starting up linux Netscape!
>
> At the moment, I cvsup-ed new sources, and am rebuilding world and a
> fresh new kernel, at which point I'll try to reproduce this again. I
> remember seeing this in earlier -CURRENT, too, just never got around to
> playing with it. Anyone?
>
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-Peter
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