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Date:      Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:21:11 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Changing time causes ipv6 panics
Message-ID:  <20060211232111.GA48677@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20060207054502.GA18560@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20060116004438.GA27901@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060207054502.GA18560@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:45:02AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Has anyone looked at this?  This is on the TODO list for 6.1, so the
> sooner it can be resolved the better.

I wonder if a lot of these panics are related to races on the
in6_ifaddr variable? Access to it is unsynchronised currently,
and I think it has been causing various problems. See my followup
to PR 93170.

I'm trying to sort out some locking patches for it, I'll test them
against your clock-setting test.

	David.



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