Bug 640193 – RHEL 4.8: With multipath enabled, system occasionally halts in do_cciss_request [rhel-4.8.z]

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Bug 640193 - RHEL 4.8: With multipath enabled, system occasionally halts in do_cciss_request [rhel-4.8.z]

Summary:	RHEL 4.8: With multipath enabled, system occasionally halts in do_cciss_reque...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.8
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	urgent Severity urgent
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Don Howard
QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team
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Keywords:	OtherQA, ZStream

Depends On:	594086
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Reported:	2010-10-05 03:26 EDT by RHEL Product and Program Management
Modified:	2011-01-30 17:23 EST (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	With multipath enabled, systems would occasionally halt when the do_cciss_request function was used. This was caused by wrongly-generated requests. Additional checks have been added to avoid the aforementioned issue.
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Last Closed:	2010-12-01 17:24:41 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2010:0936	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: kernel security and bug fix update	2010-12-06 09:19:04 EST

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Description RHEL Product and Program Management 2010-10-05 03:26:52 EDT

This bug has been copied from bug #594086 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 5 Don Howard 2010-11-05 14:43:33 EDT

A patch addressing this issue has been included in kernel-2.6.9-89.32.1.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2010-12-01 17:24:41 EST

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-2010-0936.html

Comment 10 Douglas Silas 2011-01-30 17:23:11 EST

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With multipath enabled, systems would occasionally halt when the do_cciss_request function was used. This was caused by wrongly-generated requests. Additional checks have been added to avoid the aforementioned issue.

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