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Bug#667434: lvcreate / lvremove snapshot under Xen causes Kernel OOPs



On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 11:52 +1200, Quintin Russ wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> After around 26 days of uptime one of the first hosts we upgraded the
> linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 package to 2.6.32-43 from
> proposed-updates crashed overnight in the same situation as originally
> detailed in this ticket. One new piece of information has come up since
> then - just prior to it crashing this was logged into syslog:
> 
> May 16 01:16:20 dom0 kernel: [2332024.578498] lvcreate: sending ioctl
> 1261 to a partition!

This warning was introduced as part of the fix for a security flaw,
CVE-2011-4127.  It probably doesn't make any difference to this bug.

Ben.

> I am going to look into setting up a serial console for our nodes now,
> but just highlighting that I don't believe this update has fixed the
> issue we're seeing.
> 
> If you have any other ideas / thoughts on how to reliably reproduce this
> fault please let me know.


-- 
Ben Hutchings
The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

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