hifn(4) causing system lockup

[Sascha Klauder]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:25:03AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Sascha Klauder wrote:
> >I've got a Soekris vpn1401 card to help with GELI disk en-
> >cryption.  Reading from a GELI volume is causing the system to
> >freeze completely, which does not happen if software crypto is
> >used (i.e. hifn.ko not loaded).  I can't enter kernel debugger
> >(ctrl+alt+esc doesn't work anymore) and my (remote) kgdb-fu
> >isn't up to par anyway.
> 
> I've had the exact same kind of issue with the vpn1401 PCI card in a  
> Dell box for my firewall running pfSense (at the tie it was based on  
> FreeBSD 6.1 I believe).  It would lock up the firewall within 2 hours  
> to 4 days of uptime.  Once we removed the card, no lockups.  Soekris  
> never responded to my questions about such behavior.

 Interesting.  But then, like I already wrote, I had it
running fine for months on 6.2-STABLE.  Now that both
6.3 and 7.0 exhibit this lockup behaviour, I naturally
suspected some issue with the driver, even more so since
revision 1.40 seems to have brought in several changes.

> I blame the card.

 Hmpf.

Cheers,
-sascha