Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 250211
smp kernel hangs with GPF when heavy net use
Last modified: 2008-05-06 15:43:25 EDT
Description of problem: linux 2.6.20 hangs with net use Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.20-1.2692.fc6 How reproducible: SMP Machine, high network traffic (NFS) + interrupts from video or soundcard Steps to Reproduce: 1.mount an NFS share 2.play a MP3 3.copy a large file from NFS to local disk Actual results: Kernel hangs with GPF (BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000001) See atachment for console log, a brief machine description: MB: MSI 865Pe/Neo intel chipset CPU: P4 2.8 GHz w/Ht (SMP) RAM: 2GB DDR 400MHz (thoroughly memtested) HD: 2 120 GB SATA mounted as Raid 0 (/dev/md) Video: ATI Radeon 9200 PRO (using normal *not tainted* drivers) I also have a separate soundcard (the intel in the MB and a pci ice1712) and a ieee 1394 card. Expected results: Patch please! :) Additional info: feel free to ask any extra info by mail to kova70 at gmail dot com
Created attachment 160289 [details] console log from boot up to kernel panic
UPDATE: After booting the machine to a Win XP partition and finding out that it doesn't crash there, I wanted to check if it was linux in general or Fedora's kernel in particular which is causing the hang. I booted an ubuntu 7.04 LiveDVD (kernel 2.6.15) and I couldn't trigger the bug. So I copied ubuntu's kernel, modules and initrd to my fedora partition. The machine has been 3 days up with no crashes running the exact same installation, only on top of the ubuntu kernel instead of fedora's. help please!! I've been a Red Hat user since Picasso and I would really hate it if I have to swith distros for an unresolved kernel bug!!!
Kernel 2.6.22.1-32.fc6 has been released and may fix this bug. Please try that.
Apparently the kernel hit a doublefault and then faulted again in the handler, destroying all traces of the original fault. If it happens in 2.6.22.1 I have a fix for the handler fault so we can see the original one.
Whoa! 18 hrs uptime so far without crash! I've tried to do the things that trigger the bug without success... so it seems that this kernel version actually fixed the bug. I'd like to wait for at least a full 24 hrs uptime with heavy net use to change status to FIXED in CURRENT_RELEASE
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