Re: kern/41918: pppoe BROKEN: panic:kernel diagnostic assertion "!cpu_softintr_p()" ... subr_kmem.c

[Frank Kardel <kardel%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/41918; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Frank Kardel <kardel%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: dyoung%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/41918: pppoe BROKEN: panic:kernel diagnostic assertion 
"!cpu_softintr_p()"
 ... subr_kmem.c
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:52:58 +0200

 After reading the comment in mld6.c the malloc() there is seemingly 
 executed at a save place to avoid calling malloc() in an interrupt context.
 So we seem to have a real issue here with in6_attach being called in 
 interrupt contexts and having (currently) a need for dynamic allocations.
 
 Frank