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[Stanislaw Halik]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006, Robert Watson wrote:

>>>> 6.1-STABLE crashed on me. I'm providing a backtrace. Could any of you,
>>>> experienced people, suggest me if it's a hardware problem or is it an
>>>> error inside the OS?
>>> This is a known bug in the TCP code; a large set of outstanding changes 
>>> is present in 7.x that will fix the problem when merged.  However, I 
>>> recently had push-back on merging the larger batch of changes, so am 
>>> looking at merging a workaround that will also correct the problem 
>>> without the larger set of architectural changes.  I hope to have a chance 
>>> to look at that in detail this weekend.
>> I'm glad to know that it isn't either unknown or hardware-related. Thank 
>> you for your prompt reply!
> Per my earlier e-mail, I had hoped to merge a larger set of changes from 
> HEAD that resolve the underlying problem here (that inpcb's can be detached 
> from a socket while the socket is still in use), but right now I'm 
> deferring merging those changes as they are somewhat risky (as they are 
> large).  Instead, I've produced a candidate work-around patch, now attached 
> to kern/97095.  This does not fix the underlying problem, but seeks to 
> narrow the window for the race to be exercised by avoiding caching a 
> volatile pointer across user memory copying, which under load can result in 
> blocking I/O.  I would be quite interested in knowing if this resolves the 
> problem in practice -- if so, it's a definite short-term merge candidate to 
> reduce the symptoms of this problem until the proper fix can be merged.

> http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/netperf/20060628-ip_ctloutput.diff

Thank you for the patch. I'll let you know in few days if the crash
occurs again. It's quite reproducible (crashed yesterday in the same
code path).
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