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Bug 638864

Summary: [5.5] a race in pid generation that causes pids to be reused immediately. [rhel-5.3.z]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jiri Pirko <jpirko>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Petr Beňas <pbenas>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 5.5CC: anderson, cww, dhoward, jpirko, jwest, moshiro, myamazak, pbenas, pm-eus, pstehlik, qcai, rkhan, tao
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Description RHEL Program Management 2010-09-30 07:36:02 UTC 
This bug has been copied from bug #634850 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.3 z-stream (EUS).
Comment 3 Jiri Pirko 2010-10-25 16:00:44 UTC 
in kernel 2.6.18-128.26.1.el5

linux-2.6-misc-fix-race-in-pid-generation-causing-immediate-reuse.patch
Comment 4 Petr Beňas 2010-10-26 07:50:12 UTC 
reproduced 2.6.18-128.25.1.el5.x86_64 and verified in 2.6.12-128.26.1.el5.x86_64
Comment 8 Petr Beňas 2010-11-03 11:18:09 UTC 
Per comments 4,5 and 7 moving to verified.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-16 19:09:18 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-2010-0893.html