[redhat-lspp] lspp 67 kernel released

[Eric Paris]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 19:00 -0600, Joy Latten wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 18:26 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The lspp.67 kernel is being published to the lspp yum repo at: 
> > http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/lspp
> > 
> > This is essentially the lspp.66 kernel with debug options turned on.
> > 
> > Please let me know if there any problems with this kernel.
> > 
> 
> I installed the 67 kernel and started an ipv6 stress test and received
> the BUG below. This looks to be similar to RH bugzilla 228409 in the
> upstream kernel. My 67 kernel is not hung nor goes into xmon.
> 
> So far, I only saw this happen when I had forgotten to set my pre-shared
> key for ipsec and racoon could not establish any SAs... once I corrected
> my config and racoon established the SAs, I did not see it...
> This is my first time seeing this in our lspp kernel. I did quite a bit
> of testing on 64 and 65 writing testcases and sometimes forgot to set
> the pre-shared key... but did not see this.

This is exactly the type of thing that the debugging I turned on between
66 and 67 is intended to catch.  I believe that the same issue would
have existed on 64 and 65 but that there wouldn't be any warning or way
to know (other than hitting an incredibly rare deadlock).  Thanks, I'll
take a look at it when I wake up tomorrow.

-Eric