Unmounting of vxfs partition on RHEL 5 can trigger a kernel panic later on, during fdisk or LUN scanning operations
Issue
- Unmounting of vxfs partition triggers a kernel panic.
- On changing the partition system id for /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 from Linux (83) to Linux LVM(8e) system panics. Before changing the partition id, the partition was unmounted.
- Using Red Hat provided LUN scanning script causes a kernel panic in blkdev_releasepage.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
- kernel 2.6.18-194.11.4.el5
- kernel < 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (RHEL) 5
- kernel < 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6 Extended Update Support (EUS) or 5.6 Long Life (LL)
- kernel < 2.6.18-238.31.1.el5
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