Bug 637220
| Summary: | [RHEL5 IA64 XEN] netfront driver: alloc_dev: Private data too big. [rhel-5.5.z] | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jiri Pirko <jpirko> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 5.6 | CC: | dhoward, drjones, jarod, jburke, jmarchan, jpirko, jwest, leiwang, nhorman, pm-eus, rkhan |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | ia64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
Recently applied patch introduced a bug, which caused the Xen guest networking not to work properly on 64-bit Itanium processors. However, this bug also revealed an issue, which may have led to a data corruption. With this update, both errors have been fixed, and Xen virtual guest networking now works as expected.
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| Last Closed: | 2010-11-09 18:08:00 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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| Bug Depends On: | 630129 | ||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2010-09-24 15:40:00 UTC
in kernel 2.6.18-194.19.1.el5 linux-2.6-virt-xen-fix-xennet-driver-to-not-corrupt-data.patch Verify this bug with kernel-xen-2.6.18-194.24.1.el5.ia64. Network connection worked as expected (ping,ssh,wget). dmesg is without any 'Private data too big' message,details as below: [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-194.24.1.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Oct 21 04:44:26 EDT 2010 ia64 ia64 ia64 GNU/Linux [root@localhost ~]# dmesg |grep netfront netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver. netfront: device eth0 has flipping receive path. So move bug status to VERIFIED. 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-2010-0839.html
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Recently applied patch introduced a bug, which caused the Xen guest networking not to work properly on 64-bit Itanium processors. However, this bug also revealed an issue, which may have led to a data corruption. With this update, both errors have been fixed, and Xen virtual guest networking now works as expected.
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