[dm-devel] kernel NULL pointer after snapshot remove on 2.6.17

[Milan Broz]

This is known bug, patch already in -mm tree.

For patch see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7040

Milan
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mbroz at redhat.com

Brice Figureau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just found the following oops after lvremove'ing a snapshot which was
> used to backup a mysql database.
> 
> This oops happened because I mistakenly copied a part of the snapshot
> back to the original volume. This apparently exhausted the capacity of
> the snapshot and triggered the following oops.
> 
> lvremove after the oops was stuck in D+ state. 
> Any lv* command was also stuck after that.
> After that the server was stuck while rebooting with the error message:
> "snapshot is marked invalid", then nothing else.
> 
> I cured the problem by booting a rescue CD, and hand-lvremoving the
> offending snapshot.
> 
> All this is on an amd64 debian etch with custom compiled kernel version
> 2.6.17, and lvm2 version 2.02.06-2, and libdevmapper is at 1.02.08-1.
>