Bug 691437 - Need Fix for HP advisory about cciss driver and kdump
Summary: Need Fix for HP advisory about cciss driver and kdump
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 695493
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.6
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-03-28 14:49 UTC by Gerardo Arceri
Modified: 2018-11-14 13:33 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-07-22 07:32:17 UTC
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Description Gerardo Arceri 2011-03-28 14:49:13 UTC
Description of problem:
Please see the following HP Advisory

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02758009

Advisory: HP Smart Array Controllers - CUSTOMER ACTION REQUIRED for Certain HP Smart Array Controllers to Ensure Pending Writes to Storage Devices Complete Properly if Attempting to Use the Linux Kdump Facility
This seems to affect and system using the cciss driver < 3.6.26-5 
I noticed that kernel 2.6.18-238.5.1 included driver 3.6.22-RH1.
I need to know if that advisory applies to systems using the HP provided driver or if systems using the inbox driver provided with the kernel should be excluded


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel 2.6.18-238.5.1
cciss driver 3.6.22-RH1

How reproducible:
Don't know 

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Comment 1 Dwight (Bud) Brown 2011-04-19 15:20:55 UTC
From Bug 695493 indications that these fixes are already present within rhel source pool.  Could we get the patch file names that added these changes to the driver, I've been unable to determine which ones.

Wondering if either of the following are the changes referenced by the HP advisory?

linux-2.6-block-cciss-patch-to-make-kdump-work-in-rhel5.patch
linux-2.6-block-cciss-add-option-to-enforce-simple-mode.patch
linux-2.6-block-cciss-patch-to-support-kdump-on-new-controllers.patch

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-06-20 22:37:54 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 and Red Hat does not plan to fix this issue the currently developed update.

Contact your manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.

Comment 3 Josep 'Pep' Turro Mauri 2011-07-22 07:32:17 UTC
As per comment #1 this was addressed in Bug 695493 which is now closed with the release of RHEL 5.7 (and http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1065.html in particular).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 695493 ***


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