kern/114714: [gre][patch] gre(4) is not MPSAFE and does not support keys

Thu Jul 31 21:50:04 UTC 2008

The following reply was made to PR kern/114714; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wooseog Choi <ben_choi at hotmail.com>
To: <bug-followup at freebsd.org>, <cristi at net.utcluj.ro>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/114714: [gre][patch] gre(4) is not MPSAFE and does not
 support keys
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:28:13 -0700

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 Hi=2C
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 My name is Ben Choi=2C working for Sandvine=2C Waterloo=2C ON=2C Canada.
 I had experienced similar issue=2C which was displaying many gre_out() cons=
 ole messages.
 At that moment=2C I could not access console at all.
 After applying the fix of MPSAFE codes only=2C it works fine.=20
 No error messages on console at all.
 The benefit of this fix is two-fold.
 One=2C By removing all annoying messages=2C the console becomes accessible.
 Two=2C no gre packets are dropped by this incorrect error messages.
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 As the result=2C I think this code is worth to merge into official build.
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 Kind regards=2C
 =20
 Ben Choi
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 My name is Ben Choi=2C working for Sandvine=2C Waterloo=2C ON=2C Canada.<BR=
 >
 I had experienced similar issue=2C which was displaying many gre_out() cons=
 ole messages.<BR>
 At that moment=2C I could not access console at all.<BR>
 After applying the fix of MPSAFE codes only=2C it works fine. <BR>
 No error messages on console at all.<BR>
 The benefit of this fix is two-fold.<BR>
 One=2C By removing all annoying messages=2C the console becomes accessible.=
 <BR>
 Two=2C no gre packets are dropped by this incorrect error messages.<BR>
 &nbsp=3B<BR>
 As the result=2C I think this code is worth to merge into official build.<B=
 R>
 &nbsp=3B<BR>
 Kind regards=2C<BR>
 &nbsp=3B<BR>
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