Bug 443522 - ls shows two /proc/[pid]/limits files for every process
Summary: ls shows two /proc/[pid]/limits files for every process
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.2
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Neil Horman
QA Contact: Martin Jenner
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 455229 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 443825 455229
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Reported: 2008-04-21 22:56 UTC by VK
Modified: 2018-10-20 02:33 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-01-20 20:17:50 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0225 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 kernel security and bug fix update 2009-01-20 16:06:24 UTC

Internal Links: 455229

Description VK 2008-04-21 22:56:47 UTC
Description of problem:

/prod/[pid]/limits duplicated

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.2 beta - Kernel 2.6.18-84.el5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Pick a pid of a running process - [pid]
2. ls -l /proc/[pid]/limits*

  
Actual results:
# ps
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
 8112 ttyS0    00:00:00 ps
23283 ttyS0    00:00:00 bash
# ls -l /proc/23283/limits*
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Apr 21 17:47 /proc/23283/limits
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Apr 21 17:47 /proc/23283/limits
#

Expected results:
# ls -l /proc/23283/limits*
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Apr 21 17:47 /proc/23283/limits
#

Additional info:

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2008-04-22 15:23:05 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 2 VK 2008-04-22 18:42:07 UTC
Downing the severity.

I thought it might be simple to fix on your end and wanted your first
implementation of this feature to have one less bug. 

We anticipate it may cause some scripting issues, but since this is new we don't
have any legacy code that depends on it. 

So the current impact is low or moderate -- i.e. any scripts we wrap around this
will have to account for the duplicate entries, then changed when it is corrected.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2008-06-06 16:04:59 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 8 Mike Gahagan 2008-07-17 20:31:46 UTC
*** Bug 455229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Don Zickus 2008-07-18 20:07:26 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-98.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Comment 10 VK 2008-07-19 04:16:25 UTC
Smoketested kernel-2.6.18-98.el5 on one of my systems. I see only one
/proc/[pid]/limits file per process as expected; looks good.

Thanks.

Comment 11 Issue Tracker 2008-08-27 12:14:05 UTC
The client tested for a while and confirmed yesterday that the patch is
working (with 2.6.18-105).
Thank you,

Cédric

Internal Status set to 'Waiting on SEG'
Status set to: Waiting on Tech

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Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 20:17:50 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 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/RHSA-2009-0225.html


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