Bug 638866
| Summary: | [5.5] a race in pid generation that causes pids to be reused immediately. [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: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 5.5 | CC: | anderson, cww, dhoward, haliu, jpirko, jwest, moshiro, myamazak, pm-eus, qcai, rkhan, tao |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
A race in the PID generation caused PIDs to be reused immediately. This caused problems such as signaling or killing wrong processes accidentally, resulting in various application faults. With this update, the reuse of PIDs is detected and is no longer allowed.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-11-09 18:09:26 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: | 634850 | ||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2010-09-30 07:38:28 UTC
in kernel 2.6.18-194.20.1.el5 linux-2.6-misc-fix-race-in-pid-generation-causing-immediate-reuse.patch 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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A race in the PID generation caused PIDs to be reused immediately. This caused problems such as signaling or killing wrong processes accidentally, resulting in various application faults. With this update, the reuse of PIDs is detected and is no longer allowed.
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