Bug 430391

Summary: Null pointer dereference when bringing up bonding device on kernel-2.6.24-2.fc9.i686
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Benny Amorsen <benny+bugzilla>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Benny Amorsen 2008-01-27 11:30:57 UTC 
Description of problem:
Kernel crash when bringing up bonding device.

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How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a bonding device, like this:
/etc/sysconfig/networks-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
DEVICE=bond0
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Bonding

2. Boot kernel-2.6.24-2.fc9.i686
Comment 1 Benny Amorsen 2008-01-27 11:30:57 UTC 
Created attachment 293073 [details]
boot log showing the problem
Comment 2 Benny Amorsen 2008-01-30 16:24:27 UTC 
Just a note that the problem persists in 2.6.24-9.fc9
Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2008-01-31 22:47:06 UTC 
Patch taken from netdev#upstream branch put in rawhide.
Comment 4 Benny Amorsen 2008-02-06 09:30:37 UTC 
The problem is fixed in 2.6.24-17.fc9.