Solaris 11 can panic with Deadlock: cycle in blocking chain (Doc ID 2413515.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 19, 2021

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 11.3 to 11.3 [Release 11.0]
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)

The panic string will be: Deadlock: cycle in blocking chain

The panic stack will be similar to either this:

mutex_vector_enter
*
ipnetif_in_zone
ipnet_walk_if

or this:

mutex_vector_enter
*
ipnetif_clone_create
ipnet_add_ifaddr
ipnet:ipnet_lifup_ev

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