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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:43:06 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk>
Cc:        Kristof Provost <kp@freebsd.org>,  "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r292275 - in head/sys: net netinet netinet6
Message-ID:  <CAJ-VmokA9bQFyZejwh8qp3irpQVumPK34_uaobzLtiJkR67C_g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <56715486.1000901@freebsd.org>
References:  <201512151602.tBFG2BTX089543@repo.freebsd.org> <8CEE530E-C08D-4BD1-B908-8EBBCEEAD1CD@FreeBSD.org> <1016D8B2-F850-44B9-B773-632BD9ABC95D@FreeBSD.org> <56715486.1000901@freebsd.org>

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hi,

yeah, switchports at the moment are pure L2 interfaces, they don't
have addressing. This may eventually change if etherswitch grows slave
switch port support.

But I didn't think it was creating ifnet interfaces, only miibusses
and mii's for link status.


-a


On 16 December 2015 at 04:09, Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk> wrot=
e:
> On 15/12/2015 22:58, Kristof Provost wrote:
>>>
>>> On 15 Dec 2015, at 23:15, Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> Based on the arp_announce() in the backtrace this commit looks like a
>>> possible cause.
>>
>> I see this in arp_announce():
>> KP: arp_announce() ifp->if_addr =3D 0
>>
>> So that explains why we panic in 'lladdr =3D IF_LLADDR(ifp);=E2=80=99.
>>
>> I=E2=80=99ve done a very quick hack:
>> diff --git a/sys/netinet/if_ether.c b/sys/netinet/if_ether.c
>> index 2214542..9b25356 100644
>> --- a/sys/netinet/if_ether.c
>> +++ b/sys/netinet/if_ether.c
>> @@ -1246,9 +1246,15 @@ arp_announce(struct ifnet *ifp)
>>          }
>>          IF_ADDR_RUNLOCK(ifp);
>>
>> -       lladdr =3D IF_LLADDR(ifp);
>> -       for (i =3D 0; i < cnt; i++) {
>> -               arp_announce_addr(ifp, head + i, lladdr);
>> +       printf("KP: %s() ifp =3D %p\n", __FUNCTION__, ifp);
>> +       printf("KP: %s() ifp->if_addr =3D %p\n", __FUNCTION__,
>> ifp->if_addr);
>> +
>> +       if (ifp->if_addr) {
>> +               printf("KP: %s() ifp->if_addr->ifa_addr =3D %p\n",
>> __FUNCTION__, ifp->if_addr->ifa_addr);
>> +               lladdr =3D IF_LLADDR(ifp);
>> +               for (i =3D 0; i < cnt; i++) {
>> +                       arp_announce_addr(ifp, head + i, lladdr);
>> +               }
>>          }
>>          free(head, M_TEMP);
>>   }
>>
>> With this patch the device boots. I haven=E2=80=99t been able to verify =
if
>> everything works because of a different issue ("Shared object
>> "lib80211.so.1" not found, required by =E2=80=9Cifconfig=E2=80=9D=E2=80=
=9D, no doubt just a small
>> problem with the freebsd-wifi-build scripts).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kristof
>
> Thanks for all the info Kristof appreciated.
>
> It seems really odd that you're getting a link up event for an interface
> that doesn't have a LLA, so I'm wondering if this is the result of an iss=
ue
> elsewhere which this change brings to light, its as though if_attach hasn=
't
> been called.
>
> Looking at your trace the device seems to be an arswitch. If it never
> allocates a LLA to each port then maybe the more correct fix would be to
> ensure it IFF_NOARP in if_flags?
>
> I've attached a patch which should fix if you could test that would be
> great, but I'd still like to understand if there is something wrong
> elsewhere before I do.
>
>     Regards
>     Steve
>
>



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