Bug 450276

Summary: GFS2: cannot use fifo nodes (named pipes)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Darren Lavender <darren_lavender>
Component: kernelAssignee: Don Zickus <dzickus>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Cluster QE <mspqa-list>
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Priority: high    
Version: 5.2CC: bstevens, cward, edamato, lwang, swhiteho, tao
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Description Darren Lavender 2008-06-06 12:53:28 UTC
GFS2 in RHEL5.x is currently unable to use named pipes, refer to:


http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/4/17/1458204

This has been resolved in the upstream kernel (see links below).

Please backport this capability in to RHEL5.x.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d83225d45d2b76175279abb2a3d7ee325a09aba8

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=43a33c53cc9131a537522ab9736c6e4c03ddf57a

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=fs/gfs2/inode.c;hb=43a33c53cc9131a537522ab9736c6e4c03ddf57a

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=fs/gfs2/inode.c;h=09453d057e4126535ab0c1641c75b4d6fa7b3808;hb=HEAD

The above shows:


Linux 2.6.26-rc5

[linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git] / fs / gfs2 / inode.c


2008-05-12 Bob Peterson [GFS2] filesystem consistency error from do_strip

2008-04-10 Josef Bacik [GFS2] fix GFP_KERNEL misuses

2008-03-31 Cyrill Gorcunov [GFS2] possible null pointer dereference fixup

2008-03-31 Denis Cheng [GFS2] re-support special inode
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

2008-03-31 Denis Cheng [GFS2] remove gfs2_dev_iops    
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Comment 1 Steve Whitehouse 2008-06-25 13:06:31 UTC
Bumping the priority, we should have this for 5.3

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2008-06-25 13:13:40 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 Steve Whitehouse 2008-06-25 21:18:39 UTC
Created attachment 310297 [details]
Patches merged and ported from upstream

Comment 4 Steve Whitehouse 2008-06-25 21:23:13 UTC
ACKs please.

Comment 6 Don Zickus 2008-07-16 15:48:29 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-97.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Comment 9 Chris Ward 2008-11-28 07:14:44 UTC
Partners, this bug should be fixed in the latest RHEL 5.3 Snapshot. We believe that you have some interest in its correct functionality, so we're making a friendly request to send us some testing feedback. 

If you have a chance to test it, please share with us your findings. If you have successfully VERIFIED the fix, please add PartnerVerified to the Bugzilla keywords, along with a description of the results. Thanks!

Comment 10 Chris Ward 2008-12-18 10:39:07 UTC
~~ Snapshot 6 is out ~~ Partners, please test and let us know if this bug has been fixed. Add PartnerVerified keyword if everything works as expected. For any new issues encountered, CLONE this bug and report the issues in the new bug.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 19:51:41 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 therefore 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/RHSA-2009-0225.html