Re: kern/44418 (FAST_IPSEC and if_wm kernel panic - may affect the whole network stack)

[Wolfgang Stukenbrock <Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost>]

I think it is.

During testing I've got a panic when a CPU tries to get the mutex twice.
And if the spl-level does not lock out network interrupts, this may 
happen. Even it the whole is very small ...

best regards

W. Stukenbrock

Matthias Drochner wrote:

> Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost said:
>
> > When the softnet_lock is aquired, the spl-level should have been
> > already  raised to splnet/splsoftnet!
>
> I'm not sure this is a problem here because softnet_lock is
> an adaptive mutex.
>
> best regards
> Matthias
>
>
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