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Date:      Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:03:01 -0600
From:      Craig Boston <craig@olyun.gank.org>
To:        "JINMEI Tatuya / ?$B?@L@C#:H" <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Race condition in ip6_getpmtu (actually gif)?
Message-ID:  <20060227200301.GB247@nowhere>
In-Reply-To: <y7v4q2u1dsi.wl%jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
References:  <20060125152032.GA40581@nowhere> <20060127020528.GA18728@nowhere> <y7v4q2u1dsi.wl%jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>

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On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:15:57PM +0900, JINMEI Tatuya wrote:
> > Attached is a quick hack to protect the cached route with a mutex.  A
> > better fix with less overhead would be to allocate the route in a local
> > variable on the stack, and only copy it to the softc if route caching is
> > enabled.  I'll run for a couple weeks with the patch and file a PR if
> > that fixes it.
> 
> I guess this problem was fixed with the following changes:
> 
> http://www.jp.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/net/if_gif.c.diff?r1=1.57&r2=1.58
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/in6_gif.c.diff?r1=1.23&r2=1.24

Yes, it was.  I saw the changes in those files when I attempted to
re-merge my patch after a cvsup.  I've currently been running with no
panics for 12 days with rev 1.52.2.4 of if_gif.c and rev 1.22.2.2 of
in6_gif.c.

Craig



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