Kernel panic with if_sf.ko

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Wednesday 01 July 2009 04:17 pm, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 July 2009 12:21 pm, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >> I've started to observe the following rather annoying panic if I
> >> boot with if_sf loaded (via loader.conf) and having sf0
> >> configured via DHCP on recent -CURRENT.  If I comment out driver
> >> from loader.conf and load it manually (via kldload(8)) after
> >> system boots, it loads and gets configured just fine.
> >>
> >> Any clues here?  Attached is relevant dmesg + DDB trace (debug
> >> kernel with WITNESS).  I'm happy to provide any additional
> >> information (that is, ps/show uma/malloc, whatever).
> >
> > Last time I checked, bpf(4) with MAC caused a similar problem
> > when it is destroying bpf descriptor label.  GENERIC includes MAC
> > by default now.  If you don't need MAC, try removing "options
> > MAC" from your kernel configuration.
>
> I was not aware of this problem -- could you provide some more
> details?  Any panic caused by having MAC in the kernel is a bug...

It was about a month ago.  I had funny impression that you and sam 
were working on it cause it started happening when sam added bpf 
detach event handler and MAC was enabled by default.  Any way, I will 
let you know if I can reproduce the problem.

Jung-uk Kim