Package: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
System hangs when multiple threads use fcntl(2) F_SETLKW to synchronize file accesses. The bug is described in LKML (october 2007): http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/10/17/346152 It is possible to reproduce it with this C test case: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/17/472 PS: I hit this bug when testing a home-made Apache module on Debian Stable. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 depends on: ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy ii initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.85h tools for generating an initramfs ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 recommends: ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i -- debconf information: shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: true * linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-6-686: false linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: false linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]