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Bug 199542 - Data corruption after IO error on swap (RHEL3)
Data corruption after IO error on swap (RHEL3)
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel (Show other bugs)
3.0
All Linux
medium Severity medium
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Assigned To: Larry Woodman
Brian Brock
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Blocks: 203310 212183
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Reported: 2006-07-20 05:45 EDT by Bryn M. Reeves
Modified: 2018-10-19 15:13 EDT (History)
2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version: RHSA-2007-0436
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-06-11 13:54:51 EDT
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Patch to correct swap IO error handling (1.07 KB, patch)
2006-07-20 05:53 EDT, Bryn M. Reeves 		no flags Details | Diff
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External Trackers
Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2007:0436 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Updated kernel packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 9 2007-06-07 20:03:57 EDT

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Description Bryn M. Reeves 2006-07-20 05:45:26 EDT 
IT# 97960

This is the RHEL3 version of bug 198749

When an IO error occurs while writing a page to swap, the io completion
functiton marks the page with SetPageError() but fails to re-mark the page with
SetPageDirty().

Since the writeback was unsuccessful this is in error. The page may subsequently
be discarded from memory as it is now clean, resulting in incorrect data being
read when the page is later faulted back in.

In the read case, we need to check PageUptodate to ensure the IO completed
without error and return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS if it did not. In the write case, an
additional call to SetPageDirty() is placed immediately after the call to
SetPageError().

Customer has provided a patch based on upstream.
Comment 1 Bryn M. Reeves 2006-07-20 05:53:37 EDT 
Created attachment 132737 [details]
Patch to correct swap IO error handling
Comment 2 Ernie Petrides 2006-07-20 16:25:22 EDT 
RHEL3 is now closed.
Comment 3 Keiichi Mori 2006-08-22 23:31:50 EDT 
This should be re-consideration since we are now going to plan RHEL3U9
and this problem causes data corruption.
Comment 7 Jay Turner 2007-02-20 07:47:57 EST 
QE ack for 3.9.
Comment 8 Ernie Petrides 2007-03-06 00:13:42 EST 
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U9
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-47.6.EL).
Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-06-11 13:54:51 EDT 
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-2007-0436.html
Comment 12 Issue Tracker 2007-06-11 22:12:13 EDT 
Bugzilla comment added:

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-2007-0436.html


Internal Status set to 'Resolved'
Status set to: Closed by Tech
Summary edited.

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