[OpenAFS] Solaris8 panic w/ patch 108528-20

[Brian Sebby]

We have seen the same problem here at ANL.  I reported it to Sun and got 
the same response.  I reported it to openafs-bugs, but it sounds like it's
a known issue.  Doug Engert has created a patch that he thinks should
fix it, but hasn't been able to test it yet.  The patch was posted a day or
two ago to openafs-devel I believe; you might want to take a look at the
archives.


Brian Sebby

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 12:38:52PM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2003, Ray Pasetes wrote:
> 
> > "The system is panicing because the afs driver is calling
> > read_binding_file() during the modload.  This function
> > used to only take 2 arguments.  Starting in 108528-20, it
> > takes 3 arguments.  The AFS driver is not setting up the
> > thrid argument when it calls this function so the system
> > panics.  read_binding_file() is private to the Solaris kernel.
> > 3rd party modules are not permitted to call this interface."
> 
> Of course this means they presumably won't tell us what the 3rd argument
> is, either.
> 
> I suspect if you comment out the calls to read_binding_file entirely and
> recompile the module, it will work, as long as "afs" was in the file when
> you booted. But I'm not sure.
> 
> > I was wondering of anyone else had encountered this problem.
> 
> I assume everyone else running that kernel patch has. I would hope so,
> anyway.

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