From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 09:40:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69642106566B; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:40:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from mail.cksoft.de (mail.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E618FC1F; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:40:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from localhost (amavis.str.cksoft.de [192.168.74.71]) by mail.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A16A41C678; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:40:05 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cksoft.de Received: from mail.cksoft.de ([62.111.66.27]) by localhost (amavis.str.cksoft.de [192.168.74.71]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id h-p9pSAeQru9; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:40:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id 0C35E41C670; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:40:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net (maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net [10.111.66.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C5C4448F3; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:39:23 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:39:23 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net To: FreeBSD current mailing list In-Reply-To: <20090122225404.U45399@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> Message-ID: <20090126093817.H45399@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <20090122225404.U45399@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> X-OpenPGP-Key: 0x14003F198FEFA3E77207EE8D2B58B8F83CCF1842 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD net mailing list Subject: Re: Need testers for a network cleanup patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:40:07 -0000 On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Hi, > while cleaning up protosw things I found that rip6_output was most > likely never called from pr_output and after a short talk with Robert > the conclusion was that the same had been true for rip_output. > > Before I am going to remove the initializations I made the two > rip{,6}_output functions calling panic(). > > I have a patch for HEAD here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20090122-03-pr_output.diff > > and one for 7-STABLE here (compiled but not booted): > http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20090122-04-pr_output-7STABLE.diff > > > I am confident it will not panic (at least for HEAD;) but not 100% > sure so you can run this on your test or devel machine but I'd not > run it on a production machine. > > If you are going to use the 7-STABLE patch make sure to have debugging > support in your kernel as well so we could get backtraces in the > unlikely event of panic. > > > Please reply directly to me if you have (un)successfully run the > patch and do NOT to the lists. > In case you think you run it successfully mail me after a > 2-3 days, and _not_ with an "it booted" message! ;-) In case you tested, please let me know. /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb The greatest risk is not taking one.