RE: 8.0-BETA3 reproducible panic under load

From: Mike Andrews <mandrews_at_bit0.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:21:26 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Li, Qing wrote:

>>
>> Not sure if this is what you hit or not.  I once saw something
> similar.
>> The call to LLE_FREE() in ip_output doesn't expect NULL.  Adding
>>    if (ro->ro_lle != NULL)
>> just before the call to LLE_FREE() may fix your crashes.
>>
>
> Actually, LLE_FREE() should not be called at all here because the
> "if (!nortfree)" block test applies to route entries that are not
> from the flow-table.  And if the route entry is not from the
> flow-table, then the rt_lle field is invalid.
>
> I will commit the fix.

I commented the LLE_FREE() call out over here, and it seems to have 
stabilized the machine -- no panics in over 5 hours, where previously i 
could get one within 5 minutes.  Thanks!

Any ETA on when the commit will hit RELENG_8?
Received on Fri Aug 28 2009 - 05:31:57 UTC

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