Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:25:03 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hifn(4) causing system lockup Message-ID: <D799963C-677D-40E2-AA96-ACC9F05F3EFC@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <20080317200532.GA942@trimind.de> References: <20080317200532.GA942@trimind.de>
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On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Sascha Klauder wrote: > I've recently upgraded my 6.2-STABLE workstation to RELENG_7, > and I'm now experiencing system lockups that seem to be caused > by the hifn(4) driver. > > I've got a Soekris vpn1401 card to help with GELI disk en- > cryption. Reading from a GELI volume is causing the system to > freeze completely, which does not happen if software crypto is > used (i.e. hifn.ko not loaded). I can't enter kernel debugger > (ctrl+alt+esc doesn't work anymore) and my (remote) kgdb-fu > isn't up to par anyway. I've had the exact same kind of issue with the vpn1401 PCI card in a Dell box for my firewall running pfSense (at the tie it was based on FreeBSD 6.1 I believe). It would lock up the firewall within 2 hours to 4 days of uptime. Once we removed the card, no lockups. Soekris never responded to my questions about such behavior. In contrast, their mini-PCI cards I have installed on some WRAP boards never lockup using the same software. I blame the card.
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