On 1 August 2015 at 19:20, RD Thrush <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The patch ran without panic for 20+ hours.
>

Thanks for testing!

> I wondered about the removal of the panic() statement so I tried
> another kernel that added the memset() but kept the panic() statement, as 
> follows:
>
[snip]
>
> That kernel panic'd as before with "no appropriate pool".

Well of course.  Not all rules are rdr/nat/route-to.

> Was the Jul 20 cvs commit (panic addition) incorrect?

It has served it's purpose well: it has found this bug.
But panic'ing here in general is of course incorrect.

> If not, it appears the memset() addition didn't fix the panic.
>

It did, clearly.  You can run your setup again (-:

> I was able to take a crash dump with the above change and have
> attached a gdb transcript.  The stack is apparently damaged in the
> pf_postprocess_addr() function; however, I'm over my head at this
> point.  How may I help further troubleshoot?

You're slightly overanalyzing here: panic has caught the unhandled
case, but it's not needed per se.

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