This is now fixed in 2.6.38-rc2 kernel, and the corresponding 2.6.38-1-generic kernel in Ubuntu.
The bug was caused by the autogroup patch, which the development version of Ubuntu (11.04) applied on top of 2.6.37 for testing/experimental purposes. That's why Ubuntu got it before anyone else did.
The fix:
commit f44937718ce3b8360f72f6c68c9481712517a867
Author: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Date: Thu Jan 13 04:54:50 2011 +0100