Bug 168390 - Large O_DIRECT write will hang system (MPT fusion)
Summary: Large O_DIRECT write will hang system (MPT fusion)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Doug Ledford
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 168426
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-15 16:32 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0144
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-03-15 16:35:50 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
mptfusion-sg-overflow-4kpage.patch (788 bytes, patch)
2005-09-15 16:32 UTC, Bastien Nocera 		no flags Details | Diff
New patch to solve problem (754 bytes, patch)
2005-11-19 17:59 UTC, Doug Ledford 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2006:0144 0 qe-ready SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 7 2006-03-15 05:00:00 UTC

Description Bastien Nocera 2005-09-15 16:32:42 UTC 
kernel 2.4.21-32.0.1

"There is a overflow of scatterlist on 1 page DMA."

Patch from nanhai.zou
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2005-09-15 16:32:43 UTC 
Created attachment 118862 [details]
mptfusion-sg-overflow-4kpage.patch
Comment 9 Doug Ledford 2005-10-25 16:46:33 UTC 
Re-Acking since they got me the info I needed and the patch looks sane enough.
Comment 12 Doug Ledford 2005-11-19 17:59:29 UTC 
Created attachment 121265 [details]
New patch to solve problem

The original patch caused compiler warnings on build.  The attached patch
compiles cleanly.  Can the reporter please test this patch to verify that the
problem is solved with it.
Comment 13 Ernie Petrides 2005-11-29 01:13:02 UTC 
Please follow up on this immediately, or the fix will miss U7.  Thanks.
Comment 16 Ernie Petrides 2005-11-30 07:34:08 UTC 
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U7
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-37.12.EL).
Comment 19 Ernie Petrides 2005-12-09 03:24:42 UTC 
*** Bug 175154 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 22 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-03-15 16:35:50 UTC 
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 the 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-2006-0144.html
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