Bug 640117
Summary: | [RHEL4.5] select() cannot return in UDP/UNIX domain socket [rhel-4.8.z] | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Benjamin Kahn <bkahn> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Don Howard <dhoward> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | urgent | ||
Version: | 4.8 | CC: | agospoda, bkahn, cww, dhoward, fleitner, haliu, pm-eus, 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: |
For UDP/UNIX domain sockets, due to insufficient memory barriers in the network code, a process sleeping in select() may have missed notifications about new data. In rare cases, this bug may have caused a process to sleep forever.
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Last Closed: | 2010-10-19 18:48:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 546251 | ||
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Description
Benjamin Kahn
2010-10-04 21:04:46 UTC
A patch for this issue has been included in kernel 2.6.9-89.31.1.EL. 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-2010-0779.html 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: For UDP/UNIX domain sockets, due to insufficient memory barriers in the network code, a process sleeping in select() may have missed notifications about new data. In rare cases, this bug may have caused a process to sleep forever. |