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

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost said:
> During testing I've got a panic when a CPU tries to get the mutex
> twice.

OK, so I've reversed the locking order.

> And if the spl-level does not lock out network interrupts, this may
> happen. Even it the whole is very small ...

This is still somewhat strange... The mutex is an adaptive one,
which cannot be taken in interrupt handlers at all. Only in
the softint handler. As I understand it, it is also OK for an
adaptive mutex to be attempted to be taken a second time,
even if held by the same CPU (just not by the same thread).
I can only suspect that the panic might be related to the
limited thread context of the softint handler.
If this is the case it would be an unnecessary limitation.

Can you post the exact panic message and traceback,
just to help to understand the issue?

best regards
Matthias



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