Bug 109988 – active/backup bonding causes kernel panic

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Bug 109988 - active/backup bonding causes kernel panic

Summary:	active/backup bonding causes kernel panic

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Dave Jones
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2003-11-13 13:25 EST by Hrunting Johnson
Modified:	2015-01-04 17:03 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-01-04 22:23:13 EST
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Patch to fix bonding on interfaces with no IP address (969 bytes, patch) 2003-11-13 13:26 EST, Hrunting Johnson	no flags	Details \| Diff
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External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2003:394	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Updated 2.4 kernel fixes various bugs	2003-12-23 00:00:00 EST

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Description Hrunting Johnson 2003-11-13 13:25:19 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET 
CLR 1.0.3705)

Description of problem:
When initiating a bonding interfacethat does not have an IP address, 
bonding panics.  The given URL highlights patches the most recent 
round of bonding updates that fixes this problem.  Attached is a 
patch that fixes the problem in the latest RH9 stable kernel released 
by RedHat.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.20-20.9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.setup bonding interface with no ip address
2.ifup the interface
3.
    

Actual Results:  kernel panics with reference to null pointer

Expected Results:  ifup on the bonded interface succeeds

Additional info:

Comment 1 Hrunting Johnson 2003-11-13 13:26:04 EST

Created attachment 95950 [details]
Patch to fix bonding on interfaces with no IP address

Comment 2 Hrunting Johnson 2003-12-30 17:03:23 EST

This was bug was listed as fixed in the latest errata.  Is that 
correct?  The bug still shows a state of NEW.

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2004-01-04 22:23:13 EST

Patch was applied in current errata.

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