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Date:      Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:26:00 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: anyone recognize this panic?
Message-ID:  <44015808.1000201@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060226070300.GA59714@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <17409.8562.677322.222883@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20060226033858.GA10985@xor.obsecurity.org> <440145EF.5000101@u.washington.edu> <20060226061343.GA4483@xor.obsecurity.org> <44014943.8050905@u.washington.edu> <20060226070300.GA59714@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:22:59PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>>>>re0: diagnostic failed to receive packet in loopback mode
>>>>>>re0: attach aborted due to hardware diagnostic failure
>>>>>>panic: mtx_lock() of spin mutex (null) @ 
>>>>>>/usr/src/sys/netinet/in_pcb,c:862
>>>>>>
>>>>>>	"re0" is a Linksys EG-1032, less than two months old.  It was
>>>>>>connected, but had zero traffic at the time of the crash.
>>>>>>	Before I take this to current@ - has anyone seen anything like
>>>>>>this before?  A quick check of the archives and the web in general
>>>>>>didn't show anything.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>You need to at least get a traceback from the panic, and preferably a
>>>>>crashdump.
>>>>>
>>>>>Kris
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Probably should pass this onto some devs. It seems like a null value was 
>>>>passed for locking a mutex in the OS, which is important. Having a 
>>>>traceback would be good though... but at least mentioning that the issue 
>>>>laid with the re (?) kernel driver would be a start.
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Unfortunately without a traceback the panic string is useless since it
>>>gives you no clue about how the system got into that state.  This kind
>>>of panic is often a secondary effect of some other problem.
>>>
>>>Kris
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>True, but at least you'd be able to find a way to the affected code... 
>>After that it's just tests and debugging =\...
>>    
>>
>
>I don't understand what you're suggesting; how do you find the
>affected code without a traceback?
>
>Kris
>
I'm thinking of the "old fashioned way" of doing things... reading tons 
of code. Lol.
-Garrett



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