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Date:      Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:08:18 +0800
From:      adrian@freebsd.org
To:        Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any action on PR 10570 ? getting closer to 65K :-( 
Message-ID:  <19990430110819.14902.qmail@ewok.creative.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:26:51 %2B0200." <19990430122651.A11742@enst.fr> 

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Pierre Beyssac writes:
>On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 04:28:55PM +0800, adrian@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
>> I'll submit a followup to the pr, and a patch after I've verified it
>> doesn't panic the system, but that will be sometime early next week
>> (I can't setup a BGP connection to flood routes in and out before then..)
>
>Uh, from reading the PR it looks like it can be triggered by creating
>a little more than 2^16 routes to the same destination, and then
>deleting some of them to fall back under 2^16. I'm going to give
>it a try now and I'll send you the script if that works. I'm also
>making a world with "short" changed to "int" to see if it works.
>
>Wouldn't it be sensible to issue a warning (or panic) when increasing
>the reference count reaches 0, rather than causing a later kernel
>segfault? It would involve some overhead though, and I'm not sure
>having 2^32 routes is currently realistic since most machines don't
>even have that many bytes of RAM, but it might be true one day...
>-- 

There isn't a reference to either IFAFREE or ifa_refcnt outside of
/usr/src/sys on my tree.



Adrian


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