Bug 631854

Summary: Kernel: network: bonding: scheduling while atomic: ifdown-eth/0x00000100/21775 [rhel-5.4.z]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kernelAssignee: Andy Gospodarek <agospoda>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.4CC: agospoda, cpelland, dhoward, enarvaez, gideonn, herbert.xu, jolsa, jpirko, jwest, jwilson, llim, mchan, mst, nhorman, oramraz, peterm, pm-eus, redhat-bugzilla, sgruszka, tao, tgraf, zdou
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: TestBlocker, ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.18-164.27.1.el5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
The cnic parts resets could cause a deadlock when the bnx2 device was enslaved in a bonding device and that device had an associated VLAN.
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Last Closed: 2010-10-19 13:34:40 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 554706    
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rhel5.4.z-bnx2-avoid-restarting-cnic-in-some-contexts.patch none

Description RHEL Program Management 2010-09-08 14:32:07 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #554706 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.4 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 5 Andy Gospodarek 2010-09-23 18:27:00 UTC
Created attachment 449277 [details]
rhel5.4.z-bnx2-avoid-restarting-cnic-in-some-contexts.patch

Here it is.

(Compile tested only.)

Comment 6 Jiri Pirko 2010-09-23 20:19:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Created attachment 449277 [details]
> rhel5.4.z-bnx2-avoid-restarting-cnic-in-some-contexts.patch
> 
> Here it is.
> 
> (Compile tested only.)

Fine, please post it also to rhkl. Thanks!

Comment 7 Andy Gospodarek 2010-09-24 18:26:31 UTC
I just did a quick test and verified that this patch resolved the complaints for kernels >= 2.6.18-164.7.1.el5 that contained the cnic update that created this problem.

Comment 9 Jiri Pirko 2010-09-26 05:50:17 UTC
in kernel 2.6.18-164.27.1.el5

linux-2.6-net-bnx2-avoid-restarting-cnic-in-some-contexts.patch

Comment 11 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-10-12 22:45:31 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
The cnic parts resets could cause a deadlock when the bnx2 device was enslaved in a bonding device and that device had an associated VLAN.

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2010-10-19 13:34:40 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/RHBA-2010-0778.html