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Bug 472572

Summary:

RHEL4.7 guest will crash, if creating with only RTL8139 emulation NIC

Product:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Reporter:

Don Dutile (Red Hat) <ddutile>

Component:

kernel-xen

Assignee:

Don Dutile (Red Hat) <ddutile>

Status:

CLOSED ERRATA

QA Contact:

Martin Jenner <mjenner>

Severity:

high

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Priority:

urgent

Version:

4.7

CC:

deepak.patel, dhoward, dzickus, guru.anbalagane, joe.jin, jplans, lwang, phan, qcai, syeghiay, tao, vmayatsk, xen-maint

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Keywords:

ZStream

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Hardware:

All

OS:

Linux

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Doc Type:

Bug Fix

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Last Closed:

2009-05-18 19:06:38 UTC

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oVirt Team:

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RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:

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Description	Flags
Posted patch to rhel4.8	none

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2008-11-21 20:21:03 UTC

This bugzilla has Keywords: Regression.  

Since no regressions are allowed between releases, 
it is also being proposed as a blocker for this release.  

Please resolve ASAP.

Comment 4 Don Dutile (Red Hat) 2008-11-26 21:57:00 UTC

Created attachment 324805 [details]
Posted patch to rhel4.8

Comment 5 Vivek Goyal 2008-12-17 16:08:36 UTC

Committed in 78.22.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/

Comment 9 Han Pingtian 2009-04-23 02:51:05 UTC

I have verified this bug on dell-pe2900-02.rhts.bos.redhat.com.
First, with 2.6.9-78.ElxenU and "vif= [ 'type=ioemu' ]", the RHEL4-U7
guest will crash:
...
                Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
                Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method.
Setting clock  (localtime): Wed Apr 22 07:22:27 EDT 2009 [  OK  ]
Starting udev:  [  OK  ]
Initializing hardware...  storage----------- [cut here ] --------- [please bite here ] ---------
Kernel BUG at dev:3006
invalid operand: 0000 [1] SMP 
CPU 0 
Modules linked in: xennet dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror ext3 jbd dm_mod xenblk sd_mod scsi_mod
Pid: 7, comm: xenwatch Not tainted 2.6.9-78.ELxenU
RIP: e030:[<ffffffff80242d63>] <ffffffff80242d63>{free_netdev+30}
RSP: e02b:ffffff8000ab7e20  EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 00000000fffffffe RCX: 0000000100ab6000
RDX: ffffff8000ab6000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffff801e980000
RBP: fffffffffffffffe R08: ffffff8000ab6000 R09: 0000000300000000
R10: 0000000300000000 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffffff801e980380
R13: ffffff801e981d30 R14: ffffff80019e9e00 R15: ffffffff80146108
FS:  0000002a95573b00(0000) GS:ffffffff80428200(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000
Process xenwatch (pid: 7, threadinfo ffffff8000ab6000, task ffffff8000a837f0)
Stack: ffffffffa009a44c ffffff801f19add7 ffffff801e980000 ffffff801e980380 
       ffffff80019e9e00 00000000fffffffc ffffff8000011da8 0000000100000001 
       ffffff801f187500 ffffffff80358060 
Call Trace:<ffffffffa009a44c>{:xennet:backend_changed+2215} <ffffffff80146108>{keventd_create_kthread+0} 
       <ffffffff8022797d>{xenwatch_handle_callback+21} <ffffffff80227b2d>{xenwatch_thread+381} 
       <ffffffff8012ea2c>{autoremove_wake_function+0} <ffffffff8012ea2c>{autoremove_wake_function+0} 
       <ffffffff802279b0>{xenwatch_thread+0} <ffffffff801460df>{kthread+200} 
       <ffffffff8010e196>{child_rip+8} <ffffffff80146108>{keventd_create_kthread+0} 
       <ffffffff80146017>{kthread+0} <ffffffff8010e18e>{child_rip+0} 
       

Code: 0f 0b 7e d4 2a 80 ff ff ff ff be 0b c7 87 10 02 00 00 05 00 
RIP <ffffffff80242d63>{free_netdev+30} RSP <ffffff8000ab7e20>
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops

And with 2.6.9-88.ELxenU, the guest works fine.
Will change the status to "VERIFIED". Thanks!

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2009-05-18 19:06:38 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-2009-1024.html