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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:33:10 +0100
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: rev. 1.94 of netinet/in.c broke CARP
Message-ID:  <200701252233.17309.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070125212310.GG7922@cell.sick.ru>
References:  <20070125162422.GA7922@bestcom.ru> <20070125203807.S13293@fledge.watson.org> <20070125212310.GG7922@cell.sick.ru>

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On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:23, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:40:52PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> R> Architecturally, the right fix is that CARP needs to have a handler
> for R> ifnet destruction that always runs before the multicast address
> garbage R> collection. I'm pretty preoccupied for the next few days due
> to an R> impending paper deadline, so can't investigate further
> currently, but one R> way or the other that ordering dependency needs
> to be expressed.  If done R> properly, CARP will always have released
> its multicast address before they R> are forceably removed. Having the
> reference count is good too, but what I R> describe should be
> sufficient regardless of the refcount.
>
> This means removing usage of EVENTHANDLER(9) and going back to
> exporting carp_ifdetach() and calling it directly from if_detach().
> This is back out revision 1.255 of net/if.c. Not sure what is a right
> way...
>
> I am worried about that CARP is not the only subsystem in kernel
> that can join a multicast group on an ifnet, and keep a pointer
> to the multicast instance.

pfsync might, but from a quick glance at this thread and code it seems=20
non-related.  I'll look more closely later.

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