NetBSD Problem Report #30250

From yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp  Tue May 17 06:52:59 2005
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Subject: mknod VNOVAL weirdness
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>Number:         30250
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       mknod VNOVAL weirdness
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 17 06:53:00 +0000 2005
>Last-Modified:  Tue May 17 15:16:01 +0000 2005
>Originator:     YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
>Release:        NetBSD 3.99.3
>Organization:

>Environment:


System: NetBSD kaeru 3.99.3 NetBSD 3.99.3 (build.kaeru.xen) #83: Sun May 8 08:26:40 JST 2005 takashi@kaeru:/home/takashi/work/kernel/build.kaeru.xen i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	see below.
>How-To-Repeat:
	# mknod xxx b 4095 1048575
	# ls -l xxx
	brw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0, 0 May 17 15:45 xxx
>Fix:
	obsolete VNOVAL by introducing a mask member in vattr
	to indicate which members are valid.

	cf. PR/25539.

>Audit-Trail:
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/30250: mknod VNOVAL weirdness
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:14:43 -0700

 On May 16, 2005, at 11:53 PM, yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp wrote:

 > System: NetBSD kaeru 3.99.3 NetBSD 3.99.3 (build.kaeru.xen) #83:  
 > Sun May 8 08:26:40 JST 2005 takashi@kaeru:/home/takashi/work/kernel/ 
 > build.kaeru.xen i386
 > Architecture: i386
 > Machine: i386
 >
 >> Description:
 >>
 >     see below.
 >
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 >>
 >     # mknod xxx b 4095 1048575
 >     # ls -l xxx
 >     brw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0, 0 May 17 15:45 xxx
 >
 >> Fix:
 >>
 >     obsolete VNOVAL by introducing a mask member in vattr
 >     to indicate which members are valid.

 Can I suggest taking a look at what Mac OS X Tiger has done in this  
 regard?  Hopefully the xnu sources have been posted on the Darwin web  
 site.

 -- thorpej

>Unformatted:

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