[Bug 215353] New: VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[Bug 215353] New: VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[bugzilla-daemon]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215353

            Bug ID: 215353
           Summary: VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk,
                    fails to Boot
           Product: SCSI Drivers
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 5.4.126+
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: DC395X
          Assignee: scsi_drivers-dc395x@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
          Reporter: richr410@yahoo.com
        Regression: No

Hello, 

VMWare LVM partitions are not recognized by the 5.4.126+ LT kernels; it sees
the base /dev/sda disk, but thats its, stalls, fails to Boot trying to access
"/dev/mapper/...."

Kernels 5.4.125 and prior DO WORK, but 5.4.126+ DO NOT.

I have been able to isolate the kernel failing to commit
"1e209effe36cbf0a939844bcf9defd3fe1e2f593" in LT kernel 5.4.126.

[And Yes the "rd.lvm.lv=" and VG/LV names match the grub line (ie. lvs -o
vg_name,lv_name)]

So commit "1e209effe36cbf0a939844bcf9defd3fe1e2f593" BREAKS kernel recognition
of VMWare LVM partitions (but yes kernel DOES see /dev/sda but thats it).

This is on ESX 6.7.

Thanks

-- 
You may reply to this email to add a comment.

You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

[Bug 215353] VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[bugzilla-daemon]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215353

Rich Reamer (richr410@yahoo.com) changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Component|DC395X                      |Other

-- 
You may reply to this email to add a comment.

You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

[Bug 215353] VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[bugzilla-daemon]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215353

--- Comment #1 from Rich Reamer (richr410@yahoo.com) ---
Forgot to add other specs (if it helps) ...
Centos 7.9.2009 (though i dont think minor version matters)
LVM 2.02.187

-- 
You may reply to this email to add a comment.

You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

[Bug 215353] VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[bugzilla-daemon]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215353

--- Comment #2 from Rich Reamer (richr410@yahoo.com) ---
Update: Testing with Kernel 5.13.x (specifically 5.13.13) - Still fails to
Pickup LVM partitions on /dev/sda (which is detected) in VMWare.

VM Container Specs: attached in screen print
Where boot stops loading: attached in screen print

-- 
You may reply to this email to add a comment.

You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

[Bug 215353] VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[bugzilla-daemon]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215353

--- Comment #3 from Rich Reamer (richr410@yahoo.com) ---
Created attachment 300289
  --> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=300289&action=edit
vmware specs

-- 
You may reply to this email to add a comment.

You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

[Bug 215353] VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[bugzilla-daemon]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215353

--- Comment #4 from Rich Reamer (richr410@yahoo.com) ---
Created attachment 300290
  --> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=300290&action=edit
boot failure

-- 
You may reply to this email to add a comment.

You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

[Bug 215353] VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[bugzilla-daemon]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215353

Rich Reamer (richr410@yahoo.com) changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Kernel Version|5.4.126+                    |5.4.126+ & 5.13.x+

-- 
You may reply to this email to add a comment.

You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

Re: [Bug 215353] VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[Martin K. Petersen]

> Update: Testing with Kernel 5.13.x (specifically 5.13.13) - Still
> fails to Pickup LVM partitions on /dev/sda (which is detected) in
> VMWare.

5.13 is no longer supported. The fix was merged in 5.16:

142c779d05d1 ("scsi: vmw_pvscsi: Set residual data length conditionally")

and I believe it has been backported to all the currently supported
stable releases.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

[Bug 215353] VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[bugzilla-daemon]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215353

--- Comment #5 from Martin K. Petersen (martin.petersen@oracle.com) ---
> Update: Testing with Kernel 5.13.x (specifically 5.13.13) - Still
> fails to Pickup LVM partitions on /dev/sda (which is detected) in
> VMWare.

5.13 is no longer supported. The fix was merged in 5.16:

142c779d05d1 ("scsi: vmw_pvscsi: Set residual data length conditionally")

and I believe it has been backported to all the currently supported
stable releases.

-- 
You may reply to this email to add a comment.

You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

[Bug 215353] VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[bugzilla-daemon]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215353

--- Comment #6 from Rich Reamer (richr410@yahoo.com) ---
wow thanks - I will pull one down (after confirming the 142c779d05d1 buildin)
and test!

-- 
You may reply to this email to add a comment.

You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

[Bug 215353] VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[bugzilla-daemon]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215353

--- Comment #7 from Rich Reamer (richr410@yahoo.com) ---
Yah, looks like 5.15.13, 5.10.90, 5.4.170, 4.19.224, 4.14.261 and likely other
current LT kernels have this fix. Now to test, prolly tomorrow; maybe tonight
excited about the fix!!

-- 
You may reply to this email to add a comment.

You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

[Bug 215353] VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[bugzilla-daemon]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215353

Rich Reamer (richr410@yahoo.com) changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |CODE_FIX

--- Comment #8 from Rich Reamer (richr410@yahoo.com) ---
@Martin -- yah!! it works!! (testing kernel 5.15.13)

-- 
You may reply to this email to add a comment.

You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

[Bug 215353] VMWare LVM partitions not recognized, sees base disk, fails to Boot

[bugzilla-daemon]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215353

--- Comment #9 from Akemi Yagi (toracat@elrepo.org) ---
This bug affects RHEL-9 (beta). A bug report submitted and being tracked:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2048178

Unfortunately it was made private, so not visible publicly.

-- 
You may reply to this email to add a comment.

You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.