Re: pfctl: Cannot allocate memory.
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:13:30 UTC
On 28 Mar 2022, at 14:14, Marcel Bischoff wrote: >> On 28. Mar 2022, at 09:44, Kristof Provost <kp@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> On 27 Mar 2022, at 22:11, Marcel Bischoff wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> when updating a table of ~370k entries, PF sometimes refuses to do so and from then on continues to refuse until I reboot the machine. >>> >>> $ doas pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf >>> /etc/pf.conf:27: cannot define table pfbadhost: Cannot allocate memory >>> pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded >>> >> That sounds a lot like https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260406 >> >> My current theory is that this is a bug in the memory allocator somewhere. I do not have the background or time to debug that. > > Thanks for your reply Kristof. I concur, it indeed looks a lot like the bug ticket you linked. I could spare the time but I don't have the background or capability to debug this myself. Is there anything I could do to help move this issue along? > Short of studying the memory allocation code and finding the bug, no. Kristof