When interface is put in promiscuous mode and it receives VLAN packets, but no VLANS are configured on that interface , then the kernel crashes in the 8021q module. Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Somnath Kotur for reporting this issue.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2011:1386 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1386.html
Statement: This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1386.html. This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as it did not include support for ServerEngines' 10Gbps network adapter - BladeEngine. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1530.html. A future kernel update in Red Hat Enterprise MRG may address this issue.
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 748691]
This issue has been addressed in following products: RHEV-H, V2V and Agents for RHEL-5 Via RHSA-2011:1408 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1408.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2011:1530 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1530.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 EUS - Server Only Via RHSA-2012:0116 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0116.html