Bug 590864
| Summary: | Unkillable processes | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Casey Dahlin <cdahlin> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jiri Olsa <jolsa> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Zhouping Liu <zliu> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 5.5 | CC: | james.brown, nobody+295318, onestero, pbenas, qcai, vanhoof, zliu | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-01-13 21:31:28 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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On second thought I'll link the patch since its already hosted. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs//old/clone-fix-race-between-copy_process-and-de_thread.patch cscope-15.7a-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cscope-15.7a-1.fc12 cscope-15.7a-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. (In reply to comment #1) > > On second thought I'll link the patch since its already hosted. > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs//old/clone-fix-race-between-copy_process-and-de_thread.patch Yes, this patch should fix the problem. I think the backport is trivial. Will do tomorrow, although I hope Jiri can do this before me ;) 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. in kernel-2.6.18-221.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/jwilson/el5 Detailed testing feedback is always welcomed. 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-2011-0017.html |
Created attachment 412958 [details] Reproducer Customer sees the attached reproducer produce unkillable processes. The attached patch has been shown to resolve the issue in a GSS-provided test-kernel.