Bug 714729
| Summary: | [5.6][REG]for some uses of 'nfsservctl' system call, the kernel crashes. | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Phillip Lougher <plougher> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Petr Beňas <pbenas> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 5.6 | CC: | bfields, cww, dhoward, dhowells, dsmith, ebachalo, fche, jistone, jlayton, jpirko, kzhang, moshiro, myamazak, pbenas, pkovar, pm-eus, pmuller, pstehlik, qcai, rwheeler, sforsber, sprabhu, steved, tmuneda, yanwang |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Regression, ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | kernel-2.6.18-164.38.1.el5 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
Under certain circumstances, a crash in the kernel could occur due to a race condition in the lockd_down function, which did not wait for the lockd process to come down. With this update, the lockd_down function has been fixed, and the kernel no longer crashes.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-07-19 06:52:33 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: | 653286 | ||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2011-06-20 14:37:11 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-164.38.1.el5 linux-2.6-fs-lockd-make-lockd_down-wait-for-lockd-to-come-down.patch Reproduced in 2.6.18-164.37.1.el5 on 68th attempt, verified in 2.6.18-164.38.1.el5. 2.6.18-164.38.1.el5 survived 1000 attempts without crash. 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/RHBA-2011-0956.html
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Under certain circumstances, a crash in the kernel could occur due to a race condition in the lockd_down function, which did not wait for the lockd process to come down. With this update, the lockd_down function has been fixed, and the kernel no longer crashes.
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