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Bug#1026259: marked as done (linux: SW RAID to JFS intermittent boot fail with NULL pointer dereference)

Your message dated Thu, 01 May 2025 17:20:07 +0200 (CEST)
with message-id <20250501152007.C3044BE2DE0@eldamar.lan>
and subject line Closing this bug (BTS maintenance for src:linux bugs)
has caused the Debian Bug report #1026259,
regarding linux: SW RAID to JFS intermittent boot fail with NULL pointer dereference
to be marked as done.

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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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Source: linux
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: rattusrattus@debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
Images testing for SW RAID release 11.6

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
Installation testing option test matrix option #3 with the following
disk partitions

sda1 primary   1GB  B K raid (#1)
sda3 primary  15GB    K raid (#0)
sda5 logical   1GB    F swap  swap

RAID1 #0 jfs  /
RAID1 #1 ext2 /boot


* What was the outcome of this action?
kernel crash with 
[    2.671938] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028

(console output attached)


* What outcome did you expect instead?
Boot into fresh installed system :-)


* More details

(1) I have demonstrated this to Sledge on MULTIPLE instalations, both
BIOS and UEFI and various degraded RAID configurations.

(2) It appears to be Machine spacific; i.e. Sledge has been unable to
reproduce the problem on his hardware

(3) We have seen the problem on installations of debian 11.5 as well

(4) Occasionally I have been able to get lucky and the system has
booted.  This, coupled with #2 might suggest a race hazard / timing
issue?

Sorry

/Andy

Attachment: RAID_JFS_kernel_bug_console_out
Description: application/json


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Hi

This bug was filed for a (very) old kernel or the bug is old itself
without resolution. Maybe it was for a feature enablement which nobody
acted on. We are sorry we were not able to timely deal with this issue.
There are many open bugs for the src:linux package and thus we are
closing older bugs where it's unclear if they still occur in newer
versions and are still relevant to the reporter. For an overview see:
https://bugs.debian.org/src:linux .

If you can reproduce your issue with

- the current version in unstable/testing
- the latest kernel from backports

or, if it was a feature addition/wishlist and still consider it
relevant, then:

Please reopen the bug, see https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control
for details.

Please try to provide as much fresh details including kernel logs where
relevant. In particular were an issue is coupled with specific hardware we
might ask you to do additional debugging on your side as the owner of the
hardware.

Regards,
Salvatore

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