linux-kernel - Re: [stable] nfs kernel server causes: kernel BUG at include/linux/module.h:386!

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Date:	Fri, 7 May 2010 09:56:07 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	roma1390 <roma1390@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] nfs kernel server causes: kernel BUG at
 include/linux/module.h:386!

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 10:10:23AM +0300, roma1390 wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 08:47:27AM +0300, roma1390 wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> after some nfs server start/stop i hit kernel bug on 2.6.26.
> There is hope[1] that this bug is fixed[2], and fix is merged[3]
> into 2.6.29. But there is missing bugfix for older stable kernels.
> >
> > 2.6.26 is not supported by the community anymore.
> 
> Sadly, the debian 5.0 (current stable) chose 2.6.26 as distribution
> kernel. Of course they do kernel as part of distribution support by
> them self.
> 
> > Is this a problem on the latest 2.6.27-stable kernel release?  If so,
> > which specific patches in Linus's tree do you think resolves this?  Is
> > it just the 22945e4a1c7454c97f5d8aee1ef526 commit that is needed to be
> > added there?
> 
> Currently there isn't any free resources to do 2.6.27-stable
> testing. Switching from distribution kernel to custom one adds much
> more work for system admin, so this options is the last one none
> other will work.
> 
> If there is any demand to test 22945e4a1c7454c97f5d8aee1ef526, there
> can be such test done. But this issue was found only once, and on
> first hour after nfs server configuration was started.

If you can't test it, if I add that commit id to .27, I don't see how
that would help you out at all, right?

Can you poke the debian developers about this?

thanks,

greg k-h
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