From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: disturbing pfctl behavior in 7.8
To: Ross L Richardson <openbsd@rlr.id.au>
Cc: Jacob Leifman <jacobl@bitwise.net>, tech@openbsd.org
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 10:54:51 +0000

On 2025/11/23 14:28, Ross L Richardson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 06:07:08PM -0500, Jacob Leifman wrote:
> > Recently upgraded a bunch of OpenBSD servers to 7.8 with all (6) official
> > patches; a few bare-metal, the rest VMs, unfortunately all amd64.
> >[...]
> > /root:36# pfctl -t nosuch -Ts
> > pfctl: Table does not exist
> > pfctl: DIOCSETLIMIT (states): Permission denied
> >[...]
> > If this is a known issue, is there a patch I can apply? Otherwise, what
> > additional diagnostics can I provide?
> 
> It is a known issue (and fixed in -current).  See
> 	https://marc.info/?t=176128448300001&r=1&w=2

Fix is https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/67a69daaf0274be0c5505250c05e4083c34171f2

Or you can ignore the bogus warnings.