Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
4

Several people reported the oops: "kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:729!" and the stack trace is:

#7 [ffff880214d25c10] modtimer+501 at ffffffff8106d905 #8 [ffff880214d25c50] brmulticastdelpg.isra.20+261 at ffffffffa0731d25 [bridge] #9 [ffff880214d25c80] brmulticastdisableport+88 at ffffffffa0732948 [bridge] #10 [ffff880214d25cb0] brstpdisableport+154 at ffffffffa072bcca [bridge] #11 [ffff880214d25ce8] brdeviceevent+520 at ffffffffa072a4e8 [bridge] #12 [ffff880214d25d18] notifiercallchain+76 at ffffffff8164aafc #13 [ffff880214d25d50] rawnotifiercallchain+22 at ffffffff810858f6 #14 [ffff880214d25d60] callnetdevicenotifiers+45 at ffffffff81536aad #15 [ffff880214d25d80] devclosemany+183 at ffffffff81536d17 #16 [ffff880214d25dc0] rollbackregisteredmany+168 at ffffffff81537f68 #17 [ffff880214d25de8] rollbackregistered+49 at ffffffff81538101 #18 [ffff880214d25e10] unregisternetdevicequeue+72 at ffffffff815390d8 #19 [ffff880214d25e30] tundetach+272 at ffffffffa074c2f0 [tun] #20 [ffff880214d25e88] tunchrclose+45 at ffffffffa074c4bd [tun] #21 [ffff880214d25ea8] fput+225 at ffffffff8119b1f1 #22 [ffff880214d25ef0] fput+14 at ffffffff8119b3fe #23 [ffff880214d25f00] taskworkrun+159 at ffffffff8107cf7f #24 [ffff880214d25f30] donotifyresume+97 at ffffffff810139e1 #25 [ffff880214d25f50] intsignal+18 at ffffffff8164f292

The bug was usually hit when shutting down a KVM guest.

Upstream fix: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c7e8e8a8f7a70b343ca1e0f90a31e35ab2d16de1

Introduced by: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9f00b2e7cf241fa389733d41b6

Introduced in upstream version: v3.11-rc1 (but we had it in Fedora because of bz#880035)

References: host multicast triggers oops" href="showbug.cgi?id=980254">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showbug.cgi?id=980254 http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/kernel.git/commit/?h=f19&id=a993279a9bb538ae524fca69ec23c5c1b428f47e

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