> > I discovered a, er, shortcoming of /usr/sbin/ndd under Solaris 2.3 this > evening.... > > I was poking around, trying to learn more about the system I live in/with, > that sort of thing, when I tried: > /usr/sbin/ndd /dev/udp udp_status > > Boom! Instant kernel panic. > > I'm logged in from remote, so I didn't get to see all the nice messages, but > this is the line in /var/adm/messages which seems relevant: > > Feb 6 01:52:21 iron unix: panic: recursive mutex_enter. mutex fc0acb50 caller fc02dabc > > I, um, reproduced it on another Solaris 2.3 system, so it seems like a real > bug. > > And as I see it, this is a reasonably large one. > Not only does it show a less-than-complete run of testing of Sun's udp code > (I daren't try it with other devices until I have a test machine), but it > could theoretically present an interesting denial of service attack. > > Anyone care to try it on 2.[24] or anything else w/ ndd? ummmm, yeah, found that last year...fixed in 2.4 I had a problem with bsmconv being enabled (2.4), but I haven't tried the latest kernel yet (101945-13). problem = kernel panic: Jan 9 19:38:46 solaris2 unix: panic: AUDIT_SETF: path already allocated to file audit data