Re: Panic: cache_vop_rename: lingering negative entry

On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 05:02:05PM +0200, Jan Martin Mikkelsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am consistently getting the panic below while building lang/perl5.42. This is the command from the perl build that triggers the panic:
> 
> /usr/bin/strip /ports-work/usr/ports/lang/perl5.42/work/stage/usr/local/bin/perl5.42.0
> 
> CURRENT on aarch64, with a kernel from last week, also with a later one from the  weekend. A kernel from mid-January worked fine.
> 
> I can reproduce on demand, no parallelism in the build required.
> 
> Does this look familiar to anyone?
> 
> panic: cache_vop_rename: lingering negative entry
> cpuid = 4
> time = 1775410763
> KDB: stack backtrace:
> db_trace_self() at db_trace_self
> db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x38
> vpanic() at vpanic+0x1a0
> panic() at panic+0x48
> cache_vop_rename() at cache_vop_rename+0xb0
> zfs_do_rename() at zfs_do_rename+0xafc
> zfs_freebsd_rename() at zfs_freebsd_rename+0x5c
> VOP_RENAME_APV() at VOP_RENAME_APV+0x44
> kern_renameat () at kern_renameat+0x574
> do_el0_sync() at do_el0_sync+0x5f8
> handle_el0_sync() at handle_el0_sync+0x4c
> --- exception, esr 0x56000000
> KDB: enter: panic
> [ thread pid 81230 tid 101738 ]
> Stopped at kdb_enter+0x48: str xzr, [x19, #3072]

Is it reproducable on UFS and/or tmpfs?