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Date:      Sat, 12 Dec 2015 11:14:05 +0100
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        Randall Stewart <rrs@netflix.com>
Cc:        "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@ipfw.ru>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Race between arptimer() and lle removal [WAS: panic in arptimer in r289937]
Message-ID:  <566BF36D.5060702@selasky.org>
In-Reply-To: <91332B46-8CD3-45C0-80D0-AAD29ADD2DE0@netflix.com>
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On 12/12/15 00:26, Randall Stewart wrote:
> Hans:
>
> After talking with Gleb he tells me part of your test is to kldunload a module.
>
> Now I think that is the source of the problem.
>
> Probably the cleanup code failed to stop the timer and did the remove.. thus
> when the timer expires it blows up.
>
> This is not a callout issue.. I think you need to start looking at the cleanup if you
> want to pursue this.

Randall:

Our driver uses a pause of hz ticks to ensure resources are not used any 
more, which on a fast machine might give exactly hz ticks between 
ifattach and ifdetach. Is this a problem? What about tunX and tapX devices?

In think the right way to ensure races go away is to use Glebs initial 
approach, because then there is no need to have a check for LLE_LINKED, 
hence the callback is protected by a mutex, and will be atomically 
stopped? And use callout_async_drain() when when freeing lle's. Like you 
write in your previous e-mail, the value of callout_pending() can change 
during the execution of the arptimer function, and even after the last 
unlock in arptimer.

--HPS



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