Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:24:11 -0200 From: Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br@gmail.com> To: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Giuseppe Lettieri <giuseppe.lettieri73@gmail.com>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fix netmap emulated mode for FreeBSD 11 versions Message-ID: <CAB=2f8wHfRmkWn99UAVVZoJo4nS-CowA0_Gfar0GiOyRfX6bqA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B_eA9hBhfRfeyQ=z5u--LFaD8xLJrCwFhZdNTOcSaOhKwGWFg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2B_eA9hBhfRfeyQ=z5u--LFaD8xLJrCwFhZdNTOcSaOhKwGWFg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 19 January 2017 at 09:11, Vincenzo Maffione wrote: > Hi, > > A change in mb_free_ext() introduced in FreeBSD 11 versions broke the > transmission support for netmap in emulated mode. This means immediate > kernel crashes for netmap users in non-native (emulated) mode. > > This problem has been fixed in FreeBSD-12-CURRENT, which contains a recent > version of Netmap. However, FreeBSD 11 versions (release, stable) are still > affected, as they contain old Netmap versions. > Is it possible to push the fix (provided by me) to the relevant > release/stable branches? What is the procedure (I'm not familiar with the > FreeBSD release engineering process)? Hi Vincenzo, Yeah, I saw that trying netmap on ARM (running with emulated drivers) and I can confirm that it is fixed on -head. Please, send me the fix and I'll get it committed on stable/11 (this is a common situation and the fix can be committed directly into the affected branch). Thanks! Luiz
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