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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:37:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      haering@in.tum.de
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   kern/17582: Realtek driver crashes when copying a lot of data via NFS
Message-ID:  <200003241737.JAA09017@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         17582
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Realtek driver crashes when copying a lot of data via NFS
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 24 09:40:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gerhard Häring
>Release:        4.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
Don't have it here, sorry. i386, 4.0-RELEASE GENERIC should be it
Crashes also my own kernel builds.
>Description:
kernel panic when trying to copy large files via NFS

error message "no memory for tx list" is triggered just before the kernel
crashes

the error message printf-ed in if_rl.c, function rl_encap().
>How-To-Repeat:
I could crash my system in 5 of 5 cases by copying the XFree86 
package over NFS (ca. 40 MB).

My output of dmesg is in 
http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~haering/rl_patch.tar.gz


>Fix:
apply the patch from 
http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~haering/rl_patch.tar.gz
which checks the return value of rl_encap() instead of cheerfully 
ignoring the error ;-) This was a quick hack last night, and *not* a
patch to really get rid of the bug(s) in the driver.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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