Bug 682673
| Summary: | system fails to boot do to x86-64 kernel corrupting bios memory area [rhel-5.6.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: | Igor Zhang <yugzhang> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 5.4 | CC: | dhoward, djeffery, dzickus, jpirko, jwest, plyons, pm-eus, qcai, rkhan, yugzhang |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Regression, ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | kernel-2.6.18-238.8.1.el5 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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Booting a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 or later kernel failed (the system became unresponsive) due to the zeroing out of extra bytes of memory of the reset vector. The reset vector is comprised of two 16-bit registers (high and low). Instead of zeroing out 32-bits, the kernel was zeroing out 64-bits. On some machines this overwritten memory was used during the boot process, resulting in a hang. With this update, the long data type has been changed to the unsigned 32-bit data type; thus, resolving the issue. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and later kernel now boot as expected on the machines affected by this bug.
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| Last Closed: | 2011-04-12 18:20:44 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: | 675258 | ||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2011-03-07 08:45:46 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-238.8.1.el5 linux-2.6-x86_64-use-u32-not-long-to-set-reset-vector-back-to-0.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-2011-0429.html
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Booting a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 or later kernel failed (the system became unresponsive) due to the zeroing out of extra bytes of memory of the reset vector. The reset vector is comprised of two 16-bit registers (high and low). Instead of zeroing out 32-bits, the kernel was zeroing out 64-bits. On some machines this overwritten memory was used during the boot process, resulting in a hang. With this update, the long data type has been changed to the unsigned 32-bit data type; thus, resolving the issue. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and later kernel now boot as expected on the machines affected by this bug.
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