Race condition in ip6_getpmtu (actually gif)?

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

>>>>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:05:28 -0600, 
>>>>> Craig Boston <craig at olyun.gank.org> said:

>> I seem to be running into a race condition in ip6_getpmtu.  I've been
>> having sporadic panics recently -- sometimes the machine will last a
>> week, sometimes it'll panic twice in a day.  The backtrace is always the
>> same:

(snip)

> Attached is a quick hack to protect the cached route with a mutex.  A
> better fix with less overhead would be to allocate the route in a local
> variable on the stack, and only copy it to the softc if route caching is
> enabled.  I'll run for a couple weeks with the patch and file a PR if
> that fixes it.

I guess this problem was fixed with the following changes:

http://www.jp.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/net/if_gif.c.diff?r1=1.57&r2=1.58
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/in6_gif.c.diff?r1=1.23&r2=1.24

But I'll be happy to look at the problem more closely if not.

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp