I have observed many crashes in fscache/cachefiles when accessing an automounted NFS4 volume. I don't recall exactly what I was doing during this one. I don't have a reproducer for this crash. I'm runing: kernel-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5 cachefilesd-0.7-6.el5 Backtrace from crash: #0 [f1d4edb4] crash_kexec at c0442bde #1 [f1d4edf8] die at c04054ae #2 [f1d4ee28] do_invalid_op at c0405bfe #3 [f1d4eed8] error_code (via invalid_op) at c0404a6f EAX: 00000027 EBX: 00000000 ECX: f8cb2388 EDX: f1d4ef14 EBP: 00000000 DS: 007b ESI: f1b373d4 ES: 007b EDI: 00000000 CS: 0060 EIP: f8cb108e ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010246 #4 [f1d4ef0c] __fscache_relinquish_cookie at f8cb108e #5 [f1d4ef2c] nfs_free_server at f8ed5aaf #6 [f1d4ef34] deactivate_super at c04702d4 #7 [f1d4ef40] sys_umount at c0483160 #8 [f1d4efac] sys_oldumount at c0483193 #9 [f1d4efb8] system_call at c0403ef8 EAX: ffffffda EBX: 09f0b6d8 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 0037cd2c DS: 007b ESI: 09f0b748 ES: 007b EDI: bfccddb8 SS: 007b ESP: bfccdbe8 EBP: bfccdc38 CS: 0073 EIP: 00efb402 ERR: 00000016 EFLAGS: 00000246 System data from crash: KERNEL: /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5/vmlinux DUMPFILE: vmcore CPUS: 2 DATE: Sun Mar 25 23:41:32 2007 UPTIME: 00:14:10 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.04, 0.20, 0.29 TASKS: 172 NODENAME: mbooth.redhat.laptop RELEASE: 2.6.18-8.1.1.el5 VERSION: #1 SMP Mon Feb 26 20:38:02 EST 2007 MACHINE: i686 (1662 Mhz) MEMORY: 2 GB PANIC: "kernel BUG at fs/fscache/cookie.c:792!" My reading of it suggests a bug in NFS4's usage of the netfs API, however causing a kernel panic seems too severe a response. I can provide a 2G core file directly to an individual developer on request.
FScache is no longer supported in RHEL5