From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 22:39:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24862106566C for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:39:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sascha@trimind.de) Received: from caillean.shopkeeper.de (caillean.shopkeeper.de [82.119.175.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B212D8FC1B for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:39:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sascha@trimind.de) Received: from avalon.dobu.local (p54B85433.dip.t-dialin.net [84.184.84.51]) (authenticated bits=0) by caillean.shopkeeper.de (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m2IMdius032033; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:39:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sascha@trimind.de) Received: from avalon.dobu.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by avalon.dobu.local (8.14.2/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m2IMdigh069890; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:39:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sascha@avalon.dobu.local) Received: (from sascha@localhost) by avalon.dobu.local (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m2IMdfi0069889; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:39:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sascha) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:39:41 +0100 From: Sascha Klauder To: Vivek Khera Message-ID: <20080318223941.GA69840@trimind.de> References: <20080317200532.GA942@trimind.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6288/Tue Mar 18 11:43:22 2008 on caillean.shopkeeper.de X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: hifn(4) causing system lockup X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:39:50 -0000 On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:25:03AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Sascha Klauder wrote: > >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. Interesting. But then, like I already wrote, I had it running fine for months on 6.2-STABLE. Now that both 6.3 and 7.0 exhibit this lockup behaviour, I naturally suspected some issue with the driver, even more so since revision 1.40 seems to have brought in several changes. > I blame the card. Hmpf. Cheers, -sascha