macOS kernel return 34 (KERN_INVALID_MEMORY

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Description: The supplied port is not the Mach memory-cache control port required by this operation.

Could be also:
Constant	Type	OS
ERROR_WRONG_DISK	Win32 error	Windows
ippStsStreamEnd	Intel Ipp Status	Any
ERANGE	errno	Any
FILE_SYSTEM	BugCheck Code	Windows

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KERN_INVALID_MEMORY_CONTROL

A memory-control capability mismatch

KERN_INVALID_MEMORY_CONTROL says that a port passed to a memory-management operation was not a memory cache control port. The result is about the kind of Mach capability presented to the kernel, not about whether a virtual address is mapped or whether a page is resident.

Do not collapse it into KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS, KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE, or a generic allocation error. Those values describe different layers: address validity, access protection, and resource availability.

What to inspect

Identify the API that supplied the port and the memory-object interface it promised.
Check whether a wrapper substituted a memory object, named entry, or ordinary port for a control port.
Verify that the reference remains valid across the lifetime of the operation.
Determine whether the caller needs a privileged control interface rather than a data-access interface.

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