This is a list of open issues that need to be resolved for FreeBSD
6.0. If you have any updates for this list, please e-mail
re@FreeBSD.org.
| Issue |
Status |
Responsible |
Description |
| devfs umount panic |
Not done |
|
There is a race condition between device removal and devfs
umounts that causes "Memory modified after free" panics. Can
be reproduced by doing 'mdconfig -u' concurrently with unmounting
a devfs instance. |
| /dev/kmem panic |
Not done |
|
Kris has noticed panics on SMP machines when there was ABI
breakage of libkvm and world was not rebuilt and utilities like
fstat were used. This suggests panics can be caused by incorrect
accesses to /dev/kmem. |
| KLDs on sparc64 |
Not done |
|
On sparc64 machines with more than 4Gb memory KLDs are not usable
and will panic the system. The problem is reportedly with how the
KLDs are compiled, it only works if the code ends up below 4G. |
| Max RAM on sparc64 |
Not done |
|
Maximum RAM on sparc64 appears to be limited to 16Gb. |
| make -jN |
Not done |
|
Doing 'make -jN', then suspending/resuming it may result in make
reporting it lost child process(es). |
| OpenBSM |
Deferred for future release |
Robert Watson |
The integration of OpenBSM is waiting on some final licensing hurdles.
Once those are cleared, it will be a very desirable feature for 6.0. |
| update sysinstall disk labeling |
In progress |
Craig Rodrigues |
Sysinstall could use the same fixes recently made to fdisk so it
plays nice with GEOM and disk labeling. This does not cause problems
during install because nothing on the disk is mounted when its label
is being manipulated but it can cause problems if sysinstall gets
used on a live system to adjust labels on existing disks which
sys-admins tend to do. |
| Issue |
Status |
Responsible |
Description |
| New dhclient |
Needs testing |
Brooks Davis |
The ISC DHCP client v3.x has been removed in favor of the
OpenBSD DHCP client which was based on ISC DHCP v2.X. More
testing is needed to make sure there are no major regressions in
functionality. We are particularly interested in tests
involving non-standard environments. |
| WPA / hostap |
Needs testing |
Sam Leffler |
Significant new wireless functionality is available in FreeBSD
6.0. As this functionality is rather new, further testing would
be appreciated. |
| if_bridge |
Needs testing |
|
A new bridge implementation has been added from NetBSD. As this
has not seen a wider audience yet, further testing would be
appreciated. See if_bridge(4) for configuration details. |
| sysinstall dhclient problems |
Needs testing |
Scott Long, Sam Leffler |
sysinstall has been updated to deal with the new DHCP client in 6.0,
more testing is needed. |
| ULE |
Needs testing |
David Xu |
The ULE scheduler has been fixed on both HEAD and RELENG_6. More
testing is needed. |
| aac(4) regression |
Needs testing |
Scott Long |
There had been a regression in the aac device driver on
Dell 2550 machines. This should be fixed but more testing
would be good. |
| vnode_pager_init nswbuf initialization bug |
Needs testing |
Alexander Kabaev |
There had been a serious performance regression due
to a very low bound on the number of swap buffers per vnode (1).
This should be fixed but more testing would be good. |
| fdisk & boot0cfg |
Needs testing |
Poul-Henning Kamp |
The boot0cfg and fdisk utilities need to be updated to use the proper
GEOM model for updating the boot sector of a mounted disk. |
| Alarming devfs shutdown error needs to be quenched |
Done |
Robert Watson |
During system shutdown, devfs generates a spurious error message
due to /dev being non-unmountable: "unmount of /dev failed (BUSY)".
While this is not a product of serious breakage, it is a potentially
alarming error, whose source should either be fixed, or the message
should be forceably quenched, in order to avoid many false positive
bug reports and user concern. |
| page fault at if_ethersubr.c: 284 |
Done |
Gleb Smirnoff |
Found by stress tests at http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/cons141.html. |
| Livelock |
Needs testing |
Tor Egge |
Found by stress tests at http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/cons139.html. This is the second most
frequent panic reported by Peter Holm. |
| panic: softdep_setup_inomapdep: found inode |
Needs testing |
Tor Egge |
Found by stress tests at http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/cons138.html. |
| M_SAVEDINO |
Needs testing |
Tor Egge |
A 'memory modified after free' bug affecting M_SAVEDINO. Possibly
a softupdates bug. |
| kgdb |
Needs testing |
Marcel Moolenaar |
kgdb has been modified to handle trap frames on all tier 1 and 2
architectures. This allows tracebacks to provide useful info. |
| panic: wrong b_bufobj |
Needs testing |
Tor Egge |
Found by stress tests at http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/cons140.html. This is high priority
and can be provoked within minutes of testing! |
| Panic when filesystem fills |
Done |
Robert Watson |
Inadequate locking causes panics when calling kernel printf functions.
This is most often seen when a filesystem fills up and uprintf() is
called to report it to the console, but it can happen in many other
places also. Properly locking the upper and lower parts of the tty
subsystem likely cannot happen for 6.0, but temporary fixes must be
developed and committed. A patch has now been committed that is
believed to fix this problem by acquiring Giant in uprintf() and
tprintf(), as well as a regression test. This work-around has now been
merged to RELENG_6 and is ready for wide-spread testing. |
| panic on multicast socket close after interface removal |
Done |
Robert Watson |
Due to the addition of multicast locking, a long-present memory
corruption bug now generates an immediate panic if an interface is
removed while a multicast group is in use on the interface. This
can manifest if running routed and using vlans. A regression test
has now been committed as msocket_ifnet_remove. A short-term fix
will be to GC references to the interface in the IPv4/IPv6
multicast socket options hung off of the inpcb; a long term solution
will require determining the correct application semantics for
interface removal as relates to multicast sockets. This problem is
described in detail in PR kern/77665. A fix has now been committed
to 7-CURRENT in the CVS HEAD, and merged to RELENG_6. |
| panic: handle_written_inodeblock: live inodedep |
Needs testing |
Don “Truck” Lewis, Tor Egge |
Found by stress tests at http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/cons142.html. |
| "snaplk" livelock |
Needs testing |
Don “Truck” Lewis |
Found by stress tests at http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/cons143.html. |
| fpudna: fpcurthread == curthread 1 times |
Needs testing |
Stephan Uphoff |
This warning is appearing sporadically on a dual AMD64 system. It
appears to be warning against a legitimate problem, and thus should be
investigated and fixed. |
| race condition in POSIX named fifos |
Done |
Robert Watson |
There have been multiple reports of panics when running with make -j
on SMP systems, which appear to be associated with a race condition in
the POSIX named fifo support. A number of regression tests have been
written to confirm that any fix does not break fifos, and a number of
other unrelated bugs were fixed in the process. The cause of the
symptoms has been identified, and a workaround has been committed to
7-CURRENT for testing; it has been merged to RELENG_6 for testing. |
| UFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART |
Done |
Robert Watson |
Changes in VFS locking as part of the SMPng work have resulted in a
new panic during the auto-starting of UFS1 extended attributes. A
patch to fix this has been committed (ufs_extattr.c:1.82), and now
requires further testing before it is merged to RELENG_6 and
RELENG_6_0. |