I have worked a bit more on this issue, and it seems that the crash happens when a process is executed in a namespace. So it's not the metadata proxy doing something that crashes the kernel, but is the act of launching the metadata proxy which causes the crash.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1273386 Title: Neutron namespace metadata proxy triggers kernel crash on Ubuntu 12.04/3.2 kernel Status in OpenStack Neutron (virtual network service): New Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): New Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: In the past 9 days we have been seeing very frequent occurences of this kernel crash: http://paste.openstack.org/show/61869/ Even if the particular crash pasted here is triggered by dnsmasq, in almost all cases the crash is actually triggered by the neutron metada proxy. This also affects nova badly since this issue, which appears namespace related, results in a hang while mounting the ndb device for key injection. logstash query: http://logstash.openstack.org/#eyJzZWFyY2giOiJcImtlcm5lbCBCVUcgYXQgL2J1aWxkL2J1aWxkZC9saW51eC0zLjIuMC9mcy9idWZmZXIuYzoyOTE3XCIgYW5kIGZpbGVuYW1lOnN5c2xvZy50eHQiLCJmaWVsZHMiOltdLCJvZmZzZXQiOjAsInRpbWVmcmFtZSI6ImN1c3RvbSIsImdyYXBobW9kZSI6ImNvdW50IiwidGltZSI6eyJmcm9tIjoiMjAxNC0wMS0xNlQxODo1MDo0OCswMDowMCIsInRvIjoiMjAxNC0wMS0yN1QxOToxNjoxMSswMDowMCIsInVzZXJfaW50ZXJ2YWwiOiIwIn0sInN0YW1wIjoxMzkwODUwMzI2ODY0fQ== We have seen about 398 hits since the bug started to manifest. Decreased hit rate in the past few days is due to less neutron patches being pushed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1273386/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
