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Re: Panic / wedge from bridging tap and vlan



> [...], I just set up a bridge between a tap interface which is used
> by tinc (pkgsrc/net/tinc) and a vlan.

> [...]
> savecore: reboot after panic: lock error: Mutex: nutex_vector_ente
> r.548: locking against nyself: [...]
> [...phone OCR...]

> Either this shouldn't happen,

Well, except for a few very special cases ("dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mem
is a simple example), no panic should ever happen, as I understand it.

> which is to say that bridging to a vlan should work, or this
> shouldn't be allowed, I'd think.

I'd agree.  But I'd also say that this failure is clearly a bug....

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