Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 54348
Kernel BUG at inode.c 1039!
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; U) Description of problem: Please fill in each of the sections below. Hardware Environment: NetVista PC (model type 6578-D5U) with Hitachi DVD-Ram Drive Software Environment: Linux RedHat 7.1 kernel level 2.4.3-12 kernel level 2.4.7-xx Steps to Reproduce: 1.We were able to use our DVD-Drive in previous 2.4.2 kernel. When we upgrade to 2.4.3-12 kernel from RedHat, we were unable to mount the DVD drive with the actual DVD Ram media. Mounting a CDROM is OK. After talking to RedHat, we were asked to try out kernel level 2.4.7-xx from the RedHat website. This is not yet released by RedHat and is still a Gold/Beta version. Using this kernel, we were successfully mounting the DVD-Driver to do I/O to the media. However when using vi or rm on a file on the DVD-Media, we hit a kernel BUG at inode.c: 1039! A person in our team in Endicott dowloaded kernel 2.4.9-ac7 from kernel.org and was able to run ok, however due to legal requirements we must use a kernel from Redhat. We have verified that this problem was fixed in 2.4.10. Requesting this fix be ported to version 7.1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.See above 2. 3. Additional info:
From the originator: Below is the status of kernels that work/fail when attempting to utilize the DVD-RAM capabilities of the HMC Kernel version Status ====================================================================== 2.4.2-2 works, old RedHat 7.1 kernel 2.4.3-12 fails 2.4.7-2 fails, RedHat kernel for 7.2, release candidate 2 2.4.7-6 fails, new RedHat kernel from rawhide 2.4.9-ac7 works, from kernel.org 2.4.10 works, from kernel.org Again, be careful distinguishing from a DVD-RAM failure and a UDF (filesystem) error. I believe we have the latter. Misc notes: Using diff, we attempted to fix kernel 2.4.3-12 by replacing the udf.c(??) source module with the back level one that worked (2.4.2-2). I do not remember the exact module name, but we can provide it if required (John). We we not successful. Only 1 source code line was changed - from my partially erased white board: if ( !(.... = get_HardBlockSize( ) ) ) was changed to if ( !(.... = get_HardSectorSize( ) )) or something like that. Whatever library the get_HardBlock/SectorSize( ) calls reside in that the udf.c (??) module links with, apparently changed as well.
Closing as we received the required support in the errata: RHSA-2001:142-15. Thanks for all the work.