page fault at m_xhalf on 1.10 while browsing

Sepherosa Ziehau sepherosa at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 06:59:37 PDT 2007


On 8/9/07, km b <kmb810 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Nah, the mbuf is probably freed in bge_encap(), so if you use kgdb to
> > inspect frames before bge_encap(), you will see a trashed mbuf
> > content.  I think the BPF is opened by DHCP, so one thing we can test
> > with ease:
> > Use fixed IP (i.e. stop the DHCP), and see whether your system still
> > crash regularly.
>
> Thanks Sephe for the explanation. Indeed the mbuf was valid pointer
> when using ddb. The patch works.

Sorry, I am not a native speaker, do you mean it fixes the panic you have seen?

Best Regards,
sephe

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