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Date:      Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:42:52 +0400
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_sl.c
Message-ID:  <20040830044251.GA13201@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <200408300432.i7U4WqVa084831@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200408300432.i7U4WqVa084831@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:32:52AM +0000, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> yar         2004-08-30 04:32:52 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/net              if_sl.c 
>   Log:
>   Grant the poor old SLIP driver with an if_start handler
>   so that it becomes happy and no longer panics the system
>   upon getting the very first packet to transmit.

A small note: It took a normal-priority packet to panic the
system.  Therefore you couldn't trigger the bug with telnet(1),
which was marking its traffic as low-delay.  OTOH, ssh, ping,
or traceroute via SLIP would result in an instant crash.

>   Reported and tested by: Igor Timkin <ivt@gamma.ru>
>   Reviewed by:            rwatson
>   MFC after:              5 days
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.125     +18 -7     src/sys/net/if_sl.c

-- 
Yar



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