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Bug 641907

Summary: lpfc driver oops during rhel6 installation with snapshot 12/13 and emulex FC [rhel-6.0.z]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kernelAssignee: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Gris Ge <fge>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.0CC: andriusb, bdonahue, ddumas, dhoward, fge, jjarvis, jkachuck, joseph.mann, jpirko, kzhang, pm-eus, revers, syeghiay, tao, vaios.papadimitriou
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-71.4.1.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Systems that have an Emulex FC controller (with SLI-3 based firmware) installed could return a kernel panic during installation. With this update, kernel panic no longer occurs during installation.
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Last Closed: 2010-11-10 19:12:15 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 634703    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2010-10-11 13:45:05 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #634703 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.0 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 2 Frantisek Hrbata 2010-10-12 18:53:26 UTC
in kernel-2.6.32-71.4.1.el6

Comment 4 Gris Ge 2010-10-15 07:23:07 UTC
Cannot reproduce this issue with "Emulex LPe12002-M8".
It's firmware version is :
1.11A5 (U3D1.11A5), sli-3

Kernel version: 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64
Reboot 5 times, no lpfc kernel panic came out.

As Bug #634703 spot out:
>Emulex believes there is exposure to this issue in large SAN environment where
>the device discovery process could see delayed responses which result in iocbs
>being queued.

Do we need a large SAN environment to reproduce this issue?

Comment 5 Rob Evers 2010-10-15 09:07:22 UTC
> Cannot reproduce this issue with "Emulex LPe12002-M8".
> It's firmware version is :
> 1.11A5 (U3D1.11A5), sli-3
> 
> Kernel version: 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64
> Reboot 5 times, no lpfc kernel panic came out.
> 
> As Bug #634703 spot out:
> >Emulex believes there is exposure to this issue in large SAN environment where
> >the device discovery process could see delayed responses which result in iocbs
> >being queued.
> 
> Do we need a large SAN environment to reproduce this issue?

Very likely you do.

Comment 6 Barry Donahue 2010-10-21 14:50:52 UTC
I added 20 more SAN disks to the configuration and did a one hour reboot cycle for the system.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-10 19:12:15 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-2010-0842.html

Comment 9 Martin Prpič 2010-11-11 12:03:13 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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    New Contents:
Systems that have an Emulex FC controller (with SLI-3 based firmware) installed could return a kernel panic during installation. With this update, kernel panic no longer occurs during installation.