Bug 419821

Summary: kernel panic when using fscache
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: mark preston <mark.preston>
Component: cachefilesdAssignee: Steve Dickson <steved>
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Description mark preston 2007-12-11 14:38:56 UTC
Description of problem:
rhel5.1, fscache, cachefilesd, lighttpd

repeatable kernel panic when using fscache against an nfs mount after a period 
of time


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
cachefilesd-0.8-2.el5
lighttpd-1.4.18-1.el5

How reproducible:
will happen once or twice a day

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mount nfs filer with fscache option
2. start cachefilesd
3. start lighttpd
  
Actual results:
kernel panic

Expected results:
no kernel panic/stable system

Additional info:

Stack: c1eb4140 00000000 f8aef3e6 f8aef3b5 000000d0 c0471248 c1eb4140 f4a44ef8
       c045c058 f7f6bf78 00000020 00000000 00000000 00000020 00000010 00000001
       00000000 00000020 00000002 00000001 c1e106e0 c1a408a0 c1e16c60 c1f15a00
Call Trace:
 [<f8aef3e6>] nfs_release_page+0x31/0x40 [nfs]
 [<f8aef3b5>] nfs_release_page+0x0/0x40 [nfs]
 [<c0471248>] try_to_release_page+0x34/0x46
 [<c045c058>] shrink_inactive_list+0x477/0x718
 [<c045badd>] shrink_active_list+0x375/0x37d
 [<f8aedc03>] nfs_access_cache_shrinker+0x20/0x160 [nfs]
 [<c04977d2>] mb_cache_shrink_fn+0x1e/0xb7
 [<c045c3a8>] shrink_zone+0xaf/0xd0
 [<c045c815>] kswapd+0x294/0x39d
 [<c0436031>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
 [<c045c581>] kswapd+0x0/0x39d
 [<c0435f65>] kthread+0xc0/0xeb
 [<c0435ea5>] kthread+0x0/0xeb
 [<c0405c3b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
 =======================
Code: 00 b8 00 00 00 00 0f 45 d0 89 d0 c3 56 53 89 c3 8b 40 0c a8 02 74 4d 8b 
43
 10 8b 30 81 ee 34 01 00 00 83 be 30 01 00 00 00 75 08 <0f> 0b 0b 01 36 d2 b0 
f8
 8b 03 f6 c4 01 74 0c ba 08 00 00 00 89
EIP: [<f8aef379>] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x1f/0x5b [nfs] SS:ESP 0068:f7f6be20
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

Comment 1 David Mair 2008-01-09 00:01:48 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 279431 ***