Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 14 Mar 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > > Also, I should mention, I had to comment out: verify_loaded_image
> > > to make it work.
> > Very weird verify_loaded_image should normally be a noop.
> >
> > >  There's something wrong in there. I'm going to see if
> > > that's also the cause of my troubles on the L440GX+. Also, bounce_buffer
> > > computed a bounce buffer address of something like: 0x1ffa3bd0 or some
> > > such, which is somewhat out of range.
> >
> > You have less than 512MB of ram???
> 
> yes. Is that our problem? I have not looked at the bounce buffer code.
> 
> I suspect that this verify_loaded_image might be my l440gx problem. When
> did it go in?

verify_loaded_image is went it just after the buffer we caught the
buffer overflow in the DOC loader.  Which was a corruption of a similiar
linked list.  The code has been in long enough without problem
reports that I strong suspect a malloc buffer overflow somewhere besides
elfboot.c

Eric

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