Panic in 6-RELEASE-p4 with if_bridge and pf

[Philippe Pegon]

Andrew Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:36:56AM +0000, James Seward wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am trying to deploy a FreeBSD6 machine using if_bridge and pf to
>>provide some protection for our Windows servers ;)
>>
>>During testing it seemed to work fine, but in production it panics frequently.
>>
>>When I came in to work this morning it was complaining about mbufs, so
>>I have tried increasing the number of mbufs as explained in various
>>places around the web. Despite the fact that it didn't seem to be
>>getting near the limit of mbufs I set (8192) it has paniced another
>>couple of times this morning already. I have now set it to 16k, but I
>>don't currently hold much hope of this fixing it.
>>
>>Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> 
> 
> This is a known problem with 6.0R, see the 2005/11/16 entry in
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/errata.html.
> 
> You should either upgrade to 6-STABLE or you can apply this patch to fix
> the problem.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/net/if_bridge.c.diff?r1=1.32&r2=1.34

Why not MFCed that on RELENG_6_0 ? It's a critical bug.

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Philippe Pegon