Bug 644038
| Summary: | avoid crashes: backport hold mm->page_table_lock patch [rhel-6.0.z] | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Benjamin Kahn <bkahn> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Zhouping Liu <zliu> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | arozansk, dhoward, drjones, jcm, jwest, mishu, nobody+295318, pm-eus, qcai, syeghiay, zliu |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | kernel-2.6.32-71.5.1.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
A race condition occurred when Xen was presented with an inconsistent page type resulting in the crash of the kernel. With this update, the race condition is prevented and kernel crashes no longer occur.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-11-10 19:11:39 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: | 643371 | ||
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Description
Benjamin Kahn
2010-10-18 19:12:26 UTC
in 2.6.32-71.5.1.el6 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-2010-0842.html
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A race condition occurred when Xen was presented with an inconsistent page type resulting in the crash of the kernel. With this update, the race condition is prevented and kernel crashes no longer occur.
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