Bug 62971 - Kernel 3.11.1 and higher does not boot on VMware VM
Summary: Kernel 3.11.1 and higher does not boot on VMware VM
Status: RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Alias: None
Product: SCSI Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: BUSLOGIC (show other bugs)
Hardware: i386 Linux
: P1 high
Assignee: scsi_drivers-buslogic
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Reported: 2013-10-13 23:27 UTC by Bojan Smojver
Modified: 2017-01-12 01:57 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 3.11.1
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Regression: Yes
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Description Bojan Smojver 2013-10-13 23:27:08 UTC 
See downstream bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015558

It seems that changes to BusLogic driver in 3.11 may have caused this problem.

An interesting link, including a patch, is here:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg69044.html

AFAICT, it has not been merged into mainline or stable yet.

PS. Note that I am not in a very good position to test, bisect etc., because I do not control the VMware installation, only the Fedora guest OS. However, there are folks in the downstream bug that can test.
Comment 1 Bojan Smojver 2013-10-14 22:39:00 UTC 
That patch fixes commit 839cb99e8f748391059d10388c8aea48a88c142c, which seem to have introduced the problem.
Comment 2 Bojan Smojver 2013-10-17 13:17:44 UTC 
BTW, as tested in the downstream bug, the patch from the link is the fix.
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