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Date:      Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:55:15 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.org>, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: panic: ifc_free_unit: bit is already cleared
Message-ID:  <20051005205515.GA30350@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20051005203639.GA20552@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <20051005024903.GA72743@heff.fud.org.nz> <20051005203639.GA20552@garage.freebsd.pl>

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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:36:39PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:49:03PM +1300, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> +> Hi,
> +>=20
> +> I have found a repeatable panic with network device cloning, unfortuna=
tly I am
> +> unable to dump on this box. This is sparc64 with a 2 day old current.
>=20
> The order is wrong in vlan_modevent().
>=20
> if_clone_detach() is freeing ifc_units field, so ifc_free_unit() should n=
ot
> be called after that.
>=20
> This patch should fix the problem:
>=20
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/if_vlan.c.patch

Yes.  This does introduce a race in that a new interface could
be created between the vlan_clone_destroy loop and the call to
if_clone_detach.  It's going to be hard to trigger, but it probably
should be fixed.  Since cloning isn't performance critical, I think
adding a dead flag to the clone structure and failing all attempts once
the flag is set.

-- Brooks

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