On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft_at_gmx.net> wrote: > Hello, > > Also posted about this problem recently in stable_at_. But got no replies there. > So I tried on a recent CURRENT but the problem persists: > > ipfw rules using uid are causing a deadlock. > eg. allow ip from any to any uid root > A simple HTTP fetch triggers this problem nearly instantly. > > For me, this problem existed in 6.x with PREEMPTION enabled. It was fixed in > 7.0. But in RELENG_7 and head it's back. This is a single processor i386 > machine. > I don't think this was ever guaranteed to work. See this post by Robert Watson to freebsd-hackers: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-September/025930.html Perhaps the biggest problem is that there's a stack-layering violation inherent in this sort of rule; Robert's message has more detail. Nonetheless, it might be interesting if you had the time to track down a particular set of changes that caused the problem to return. -Ben KadukReceived on Tue Sep 23 2008 - 16:47:17 UTC
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