Re: IPSEC/crypto is broken in FreeBSD/powerpc 7.0-RELEASE!

From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt_at_mac.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:41:52 -0800
On Mar 3, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Sam Leffler wrote:

> Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It appears to be that "options IPSEC" along with "device crypto"  
>>> breaks FreeBSD/powerpc kernel badly. When enabling these options,  
>>> apparently kernel doesn't perform any initialization tasks (I  
>>> don't see usual probe/init sequence output) but jumps straight  
>>> into root fs mounting after initing crypto(4) and ipsec(4), which  
>>> is not usable since no devices has been attached. Keyboard is not  
>>> working either.
>>
>> The problem is with device crypto. It attaches to nexus(4) and
>> expects to be the only child. As you can see from the log, all
>> children of nexus suddenly become instantiations of cryptosoft(4)
>> rather then the usual drivers that attach.
>>
>> The swcr_probe() function should check that the device it gets
>> is really the one created for it.
>>
>
> Don't know about "expects to be the only child" but I did was jhb  
> said was right.

A driver's probe function gets called for all devices on the bus
the driver has an attachment on. Typically the probe function
performs some tests to see if the device in question corresponds
to hardware the driver works with. For PCI this is typically the
vendor and device ID. In this case, swcr_probe() always returns
success, no matter what device it's passed. This only works if
it's the only device on the bus...

>  If you know otherwise please fix it.

I'll play with it. I think the best way is to do it the same as
null(4). There's nothing in the probe function we can test for.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt_at_mac.com
Received on Tue Mar 04 2008 - 05:42:46 UTC

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