Description of problem: RHEL4.5 uses cifs 1.45. This version of cifs is known to have a bug that causes kernel oopses. This has been reported for FC5, FC6 and RHEL5 and the fix is available. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224359 RHEL4.5 needs the same patch. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Please see the bug report above Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Currently, I'm planning to propose an update to 1.48a for 4.6. I have some kernels with this patch on my people page: http://people.redhat.com/jlayton ...testing them is appreciated, particularly if you're able to reproduce this bug.
Confirmed that the bug has been fixed in: kernel-2.6.9-55.4.EL.jtltest.9.i686.rpm Akemi
Thanks for testing it. I'll close this as a duplicate of the tracking bug for the CIFS code update. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239339 ***