Re: [Vserver] kernel bug

From: Andreas Baetz <lac01_at_web.de>
Date: Thu 07 Dec 2006 - 08:33:29 GMT
Message-Id: <200612070933.30080.lac01@web.de>

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:50, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:11:44PM +0100, Andreas Baetz wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 15:54, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:11:35AM +0100, Andreas Baetz wrote:
> > > > > On Sunday 26 November 2006 23:22, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:11:39AM +0100, Andreas Baetz wrote:
> > > > > > > On Thursday 23 November 2006 18:49, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:43:13AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > thanks, should be fixed in the next release
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > vs2.0.2.2-rc8 is out ...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I tried vs2.0.2.2-rc8 with 2.6.18.3, the vserver starts ok, no
> > > > > > > errors, but when I stopped it, the whole system freezed.
> > > > > > > Right after "Deconfiguring network interfaces...done."
> > > > > >
> > > > > > okay, maybe you get around, the stack trace of
> > > > > > all processes would probably tell us more ...
> > > > > I wrote down some of the trace output by hand:
> > > >
> > > > hmm, the numbers of those dumps would be interesting,
> > > > especially if you have an unstripped kernel (vmlinux)
> > > > available, so we can figure _where_ this happens
> > > >
> > > > so a serial console or some other means of recording
> > > > them would be very helpful, if not available, try
> > > > with a photo camera ...
> > > >
> >
> > some more info:
> > I copied the / of a working vserver and used it as / of deb4.
> > "vserver deb4 stop" now works.
> > It seems that something inside the / of the old deb4 is causing
> > the system to crash when no more processes are running with that xid.
>
> > So if a user of a certain vserver manages to create that condition in
> > a vserver, then ending all processes in that vserver, the user could
> > manage to crash the host.
>
> yes, please try if you can reproduce that with
>
> http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/patch-2.6.18.5-vs2.1.1.3.diff
>
> if yes, we should have the necessary debugging
> harnish to track that down, if it can't be
> recreated there, consider it already fixed in
> the next stable release ...
>
> TIA,
> Herbert
>

With 2.6.18.5 and patch-2.6.18.5-vs2.1.1.3.diff the bug is gone.
Also, hard CPU scheduling works again.

Great work, many thanks !!!

Andreas

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