From ${URL} : Several people reported the oops: "kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:729!" and the stack trace is: #7 [ffff880214d25c10] mod_timer+501 at ffffffff8106d905 #8 [ffff880214d25c50] br_multicast_del_pg.isra.20+261 at ffffffffa0731d25 [bridge] #9 [ffff880214d25c80] br_multicast_disable_port+88 at ffffffffa0732948 [bridge] #10 [ffff880214d25cb0] br_stp_disable_port+154 at ffffffffa072bcca [bridge] #11 [ffff880214d25ce8] br_device_event+520 at ffffffffa072a4e8 [bridge] #12 [ffff880214d25d18] notifier_call_chain+76 at ffffffff8164aafc #13 [ffff880214d25d50] raw_notifier_call_chain+22 at ffffffff810858f6 #14 [ffff880214d25d60] call_netdevice_notifiers+45 at ffffffff81536aad #15 [ffff880214d25d80] dev_close_many+183 at ffffffff81536d17 #16 [ffff880214d25dc0] rollback_registered_many+168 at ffffffff81537f68 #17 [ffff880214d25de8] rollback_registered+49 at ffffffff81538101 #18 [ffff880214d25e10] unregister_netdevice_queue+72 at ffffffff815390d8 #19 [ffff880214d25e30] __tun_detach+272 at ffffffffa074c2f0 [tun] #20 [ffff880214d25e88] tun_chr_close+45 at ffffffffa074c4bd [tun] #21 [ffff880214d25ea8] __fput+225 at ffffffff8119b1f1 #22 [ffff880214d25ef0] ____fput+14 at ffffffff8119b3fe #23 [ffff880214d25f00] task_work_run+159 at ffffffff8107cf7f #24 [ffff880214d25f30] do_notify_resume+97 at ffffffff810139e1 #25 [ffff880214d25f50] int_signal+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 References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984743 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980254 http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/kernel.git/commit/?h=f19&id=a993279a9bb538ae524fca69ec23c5c1b428f47e
------------------------------------------------------------------------ r2443 | tomwij | 2013-07-20 19:48:05 +0200 (Sat, 20 Jul 2013) | 1 line Commit security fixes for CVE-2013-4125 (fixes bug #477464), CVE-2013-4127 (fixes bug #477466) and CVE-2013-3129 (fixes bug #477468) to branches 3.8, 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11 were they are present and apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
CVE-2013-4129 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4129): The bridge multicast implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.10.3 does not check whether a certain timer is armed before modifying the timeout value of that timer, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) via vectors involving the shutdown of a KVM virtual machine, related to net/bridge/br_mdb.c and net/bridge/br_multicast.c.
Fix in 3.11.7 onward