Cloning bug for RHEL5. I think it's likely to be vulnerable to the same problem. Lowering sev/pri here though since no one has hit this on RHEL5 that I'm aware of...
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*** Bug 454266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 311138 [details] proposed patch -- don't allow rpc_malloc to block proposed patch -- untested as of yet
Tested and seems to work OK
Patch posted to RHKL: Subject: [RHEL5.3 PATCH] BZ#451317: sunrpc: prevent deadlock by not allowing rpc_malloc to sleep
in kernel-2.6.18-98.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
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