Hello,

in use on ~20 workernodes without problems.

The -238.* kernels has a new way to handle dentry that lead to a kernel 
panic when performing a 'stat()' syscall in some very particular cases, 
but we suspect it may be related to a GPFS bad-crafted dentry in mmfsd 
daemon.

Regards,
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Y. - CC-IN2P3

Troy Dawson a écrit :
> Hello,
> We have had our first kernel security update following the release of 
> SL 5.6.  We have tested it on a SL5.0 machine.  It installs, runs and 
> openafs works on it.  I would feel much better if others ran it to 
> make sure it works for them.
>
> Can others test this kernel out on their machines to make sure it 
> doesn't break something we didn't expect.
>
> I have also put the new kvm into the x86_64 testing area with the kernel.
>
> To test or update
>
> SL5
> -------
>
>          yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update kernel\*
>
> or you can download rpm's by hand at
>
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/kernel/ 
>
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/kernel/ 
>
>
> kernel-2.6.18-238.1.1.el5
>
> Thanks
> Troy Dawson
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