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Bug 624363

Summary: bnx2: panic in bnx2_poll_work() [rhel-4.8.z]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kernelAssignee: Don Howard <dhoward>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 4.8CC: agospoda, anton, bzeranski, davidkwood, dhoward, emcnabb, fleitner, haliu, hjia, jane.lv, jburke, jfeeney, jpirko, jvillalo, jwest, lcm, luyu, marcobillpeter, mchan, nobody+PNT0273897, pm-eus, prarit, qcai, tao, tis
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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In certain situations, a bug found in either the HTB or TBF network packet schedulers in the Linux kernel could have caused a kernel panic when using Broadcom network cards with the bnx2 driver.
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Last Closed: 2010-10-19 18:48:17 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 623265    
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Description Flags
backported patch V2 for 2.6.9-89.0.28 (z-stream) none

Description RHEL Program Management 2010-08-16 07:30:32 UTC 
This bug has been copied from bug #623265 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).
Comment 3 Flavio Leitner 2010-08-17 03:34:32 UTC 
Created attachment 439055 [details]
backported patch V2 for 2.6.9-89.0.28 (z-stream)

http://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=2683975
Comment 5 Don Howard 2010-09-16 16:40:53 UTC 
A patch for this issue has been included in kernel 2.6.9-89.0.30.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2010-10-19 18:48:17 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-2010-0779.html
Comment 10 Martin Prpič 2010-10-21 12:26:38 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
In certain situations, a bug found in either the HTB or TBF network packet schedulers in the Linux kernel could have caused a kernel panic when using Broadcom network cards with the bnx2 driver.