Bug 527225

Summary:	BUG in ibmveth_replenish_buffer_pool at drivers/net/ibmveth.c:219 [rhel-4.8.z]
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	4.7	CC:	dhoward, jtluka, peterm, pm-eus, tao, vmayatsk
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ZStream
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	On 64-bit PowerPC systems, a rollover bug in the ibmveth driver could have caused a kernel panic. In a reported case, this panic occurred on a system with a large uptime and under heavy network load.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2009-10-22 15:10:01 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	515258
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Description RHEL Program Management 2009-10-05 13:18:02 UTC

This bug has been copied from bug #515258 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 3 Vitaly Mayatskikh 2009-10-05 19:01:09 UTC

Committed in 89.0.14

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-10-22 15:10:01 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-2009-1522.html

Comment 8 Douglas Silas 2011-01-31 00:02:00 UTC

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    New Contents:
On 64-bit PowerPC systems, a rollover bug in the ibmveth driver could have caused a kernel panic. In a reported case, this panic occurred on a system with a large uptime and under heavy network load.