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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:55:24 +0300
From:      Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru>
To:        Derek Kulinski <takeda@takeda.tk>
Cc:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pf: unlocked lookup
Message-ID:  <20091210185524.GB33752@mdounin.ru>
In-Reply-To: <124905177.20091210102209@takeda.tk>
References:  <20091210034512.GA28864@chinatsu.takeda.tk> <200912101838.42013.max@love2party.net> <124905177.20091210102209@takeda.tk>

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Hello!

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:22:09AM -0800, Derek Kulinski wrote:

> Hello Max,
> 
> Thursday, December 10, 2009, 9:38:41 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > this is a generic informational message that was put into the code to figure
> > out if the hack that is "debug.pfugidhack" is actually required.  You can get
> > rid of the message by setting the debug level of pf to something below "misc"
> > (e.g. pfctl -x urgent).
> 
> Well, the hack actually is required, my system crashes when I disable
> it.

Please note that depending on workload and actual rules the hack 
may do more harm than good.  We had some machines which were 
deadlocking[1] in minutes with hack enabled but were almost stable 
without it.

Anyway, the only safe solution right now is to avoid uid/gid rules.

[1] 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2009-October/023350.html

Maxim Dounin



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