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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:48:05 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        Nima Misaghian <nima_misa@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Kernel panic from interface address list manipulation
Message-ID:  <20100823114701.P48418@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <COL117-W3602795B596CF8DD489A388D9F0@phx.gbl>
References:  <COL117-W4767407C73774C4E24D1638D9C0@phx.gbl>, <20100820000453.H48418@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <COL117-W3602795B596CF8DD489A388D9F0@phx.gbl>

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On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Nima Misaghian wrote:

>
>> Hey,
>>
>>> I've been able to trivially
>>> trigger a kernel panic while testing ifaddr list manipulation on -CURRENT (r
>>> 211427).  The hardware is a four-core i386
>>> machine with em interfaces.
>>
>> The diff should give you an idea of what's going wrong.  I am not sure
>> if I would want to actually commit it as-is.
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20100819-01-in_control.diff
>>
>
> I could not reproduce the panic after applying the patch.
> Thanks for taking the time to look into this issue and fixing it.

FYI: there seems to be another race issue with in_ifinit() that I find
when running a script similar to yours for long enough.  I'll try to
have a look.

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                       This signature is about you not me.



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