Re: Kernel Panic -- how to continue

[Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org>]

Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org> writes:
> On 18/09/12 17:11, Christoph Egger wrote:
>>   We're seeing a kernel panic [0] here (triggered be calling `pfctl -f
>> somefile`) quite deterministically. This is happeniong on a Debian 9.0-2
>> Kernel + if_bce. I'd like to get this fixed so I'm curious on how to
>> best continue.
>
> I looked up pfr_update_stats in
> http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/ident?v=FREEBSD9 and then had a look at the
> upstream SVN log for the source file.
>
> I think I got lucky.  I notice this recent fix to initialise a variable
> used in that function, so this is probably it:
>
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&amp;sortby=rev&amp;sortdir=down&amp;revision=236364
>
> This bugfix was accepted in 9.1-RC1 but hopefully we can apply it to 9.0.

This sounds perfectly in line with one of the other admins observing
this to somehow go away by dropping the counters from some table in the
pf config. I'll try to get a patched kernel and see if it goes away.

Thanks!

    Christoph