More info. The crash actually happen when a process is killed. This has consistently happened in 10 failures I've analyzed. So the first conclusion is that this might be, after all, a red herring, and the kernel dump being merely a consequence of the abrupt killing of a process.
I've pushed this to verify whether this is the case: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/69579/ In this patch, I'm trying to use, just for testing purposes, SIGTERM instead of SIGKILL -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1273386 Title: Neutron namespace metadata proxy triggers kernel crash on Ubuntu 12.04/3.2 kernel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1273386/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs