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Date:      Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:42:46 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel panic with if_sf.ko
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907012241550.27367@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200907011737.15525.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20090701162108.GA33681@regency.nsu.ru> <200907011613.10550.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907012116370.27367@fledge.watson.org> <200907011737.15525.jkim@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Jung-uk Kim wrote:

>>> Last time I checked, bpf(4) with MAC caused a similar problem when it is 
>>> destroying bpf descriptor label.  GENERIC includes MAC by default now. 
>>> If you don't need MAC, try removing "options MAC" from your kernel 
>>> configuration.
>>
>> I was not aware of this problem -- could you provide some more details? 
>> Any panic caused by having MAC in the kernel is a bug...
>
> It was about a month ago.  I had funny impression that you and sam were 
> working on it cause it started happening when sam added bpf detach event 
> handler and MAC was enabled by default.  Any way, I will let you know if I 
> can reproduce the problem.

There have been a number of tear-down related races for ifnets, more of which 
are closed now than before the last few weeks, but none MAC-related as far as 
I'm aware.  If it recurs, please let me know and I'm happy to help investigate 
(MAC-related or otherwise).

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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