Bug 451317
Summary: | deadlock when rpc_malloc tries to flush NFS pages | ||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Jeff Layton <jlayton> | ||||
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jeff Layton <jlayton> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Martin Jenner <mjenner> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 5.2 | CC: | fhirtz, jiali, lwoodman, staubach, steved, tao, vgoyal | ||||
Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2009-01-20 20:14:38 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Bug Depends On: | 450743 | ||||||
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Comment 1
Jeff Layton
2008-06-13 19:45:38 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. *** Bug 454266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Created attachment 311138 [details]
proposed patch -- don't allow rpc_malloc to block
proposed patch -- untested as of yet
Tested and seems to work OK Patch posted to RHKL: Subject: [RHEL5.3 PATCH] BZ#451317: sunrpc: prevent deadlock by not allowing rpc_malloc to sleep in kernel-2.6.18-98.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5 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 |