Bug 360571

Summary: kernel dm: bd_mount_sem counter corruption
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Milan Broz <mbroz>
Component: kernelAssignee: Milan Broz <mbroz>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Version: 5.0CC: agk, dwysocha, pvrabec
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Description Milan Broz 2007-10-31 17:13:18 UTC
There is bd_mount_sem counter corruption bug in device-mapper,
thaw_bdev() should be called only when freeze_bdev() was called for the
device.

Otherwise, thaw_bdev() will up bd_mount_sem and corrupt the semaphore counter.

see upstream commit of fix:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ae9da83f6d800fe1f3b23bfbc8f7222ad1c5bb74

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-31 17:16:03 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 3 Don Zickus 2007-12-17 19:37:19 UTC
in 2.6.18-61.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2008-05-21 15:00:00 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0314.html