Guest environment (single-tenant QEMU/KVM, dfbsd-qemu/vm.sh) ------------------------------------------------------------ STOCK kernel (baseline, snapshots "clean-source"/"clean-install"): DragonFly dfbsd 6.5-DEVELOPMENT DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT #0: Thu Jul 2 06:02:54 UTC 2026 root@dfbsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X86_64_GENERIC x86_64 hw.ncpu: 6 INVARIANTS kernel (gtask_dump()/panic("queue == NULL") path present and firing) MAXCPU = SMP_MAXCPU = 256 (sys/cpu/x86_64/include/param.h:71) sizeof(struct taskqgroup) <= 6252 bytes (array 6144 + lock + name + cnt) FIXED kernel (this run's fix-validation build): DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT #1: Wed Sep 2 09:11:43 UTC 2026 root@dfbsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X86_64_GENERIC built in-guest: cd /usr/src && make -j6 nativekernel KERNCONF=X86_64_GENERIC && make installkernel KERNCONF=X86_64_GENERIC (see fixbuild.log) Toolchain: CCVER=gcc80 (cc 8.x), out-of-tree KLD builds with make -m /usr/share/mk SYSDIR=/usr/src/sys plus symlinks of device_if.h/bus_if.h from /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X86_64_GENERIC into the module directory. gtaskqueue subsystem state on this guest: identical to source tree; NO in-tree consumers (only TASKQGROUP_DEFINE(softirq, ncpus, 1) boot glue), so nothing in the running system touches the vulnerable API before the PoC modules are loaded.