Bug 722822 - Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at show_interrupts+0x12e/0x28e
Summary: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at show_interrupts+0x12e/0x28e
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 698728
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Andy Gospodarek
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-18 06:38 UTC by Liang Zheng
Modified: 2014-06-29 23:03 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-10-21 16:38:33 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Test script (338 bytes, application/x-sh)
2011-07-18 06:38 UTC, Liang Zheng
no flags Details

Description Liang Zheng 2011-07-18 06:38:28 UTC
Created attachment 513567 [details]
Test script

Description of problem:
When I ran the bonding testcase in arp monitor mode, the system unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at show_interrupts+0x12e/0x28e,and panic.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel 2.6.18-272.el5

How reproducible:
Random

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run the script in attchment


Actual results:

[root@hp-dl580g7-01 ~]# bonding: bond0: Warning: failed to get speed and duplex from eth4, assumed to be 100Mb/sec and Full.
bonding: bond0: Warning: failed to get speed and duplex from eth5, assumed to be 100Mb/sec and Full.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000031 RIP: 
 [<ffffffff8006d278>] show_interrupts+0x12e/0x28e
PGD 0 
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP 
last sysfs file: /class/net/lo/ifindex
CPU 23 
Modules linked in: autofs4 hidp rfcomm l2cap bluetooth lockd sunrpc be2iscsi ib_iser rdma_cm ib_cm iw_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr iscsi_tcp bnx2i cnic ipv6 xfrm_nalgo crypto_api uio cxgb3i libcxgbi cxgb3 libiscsi_tcp libiscsi2 scsi_transport_iscsi2 scsi_transport_iscsi loop dm_multipath scsi_dh video backlight sbs power_meter hwmon i2c_ec i2c_core dell_wmi wmi button battery asus_acpi acpi_memhotplug ac parport_pc lp parport joydev sr_mod cdrom sg ixgbe tpm_tis be2net tpm hpilo netxen_nic tpm_bios dca i7core_edac edac_mc serio_raw pcspkr 8021q dm_raid45 dm_message dm_region_hash dm_mem_cache dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_log dm_mod lpfc scsi_transport_fc ata_piix libata shpchp cciss sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd
Pid: 5940, comm: irqbalance Not tainted 2.6.18-272.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8006d278>]  [<ffffffff8006d278>] show_interrupts+0x12e/0x28e
RSP: 0018:ffff81022dbd1e38  EFLAGS: 00010086
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000000000ff RCX: 0000000000000009
RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: fffffffffffffff5 RDI: ffffffff802cb126
RBP: ffff81042abaa0c0 R08: 0000000000000018 R09: 0000000000000028
R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000000000e5
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffffff804538bc R15: 0000000000000216
FS:  00002b810e8536e0(0000) GS:ffff81024730fcc0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000031 CR3: 000000022dbbc000 CR4: 00000000000006a0
Process irqbalance (pid: 5940, threadinfo ffff81022dbd0000, task ffff81022da2f100)
Stack:  ffff810107e96980 ffff81042abaa0c0 ffff81022dbd1e90 0000000000000000
 0000000000000334 00000000000000cc 00002b810da1a0cc ffffffff8003f4d1
 ffff81022dbd1f50 ffff81043bd1eac0 ffff81042abaa0f0 00000000000000e5
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8003f4d1>] seq_read+0x1b8/0x28c
 [<ffffffff801093e8>] proc_reg_read+0x7e/0x99
 [<ffffffff8000b7c7>] vfs_read+0xcb/0x171
 [<ffffffff80011d5a>] sys_read+0x45/0x6e
 [<ffffffff8005d28d>] tracesys+0xd5/0xe0


Code: 49 8b 55 30 48 c7 c6 5e 1d 2b 80 48 89 ef 31 c0 e8 ce 87 fe 
RIP  [<ffffffff8006d278>] show_interrupts+0x12e/0x28e
 RSP <ffff81022dbd1e38>
CR2: 0000000000000031
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

Expected results:
No panic

Additional info:

Comment 2 Andy Gospodarek 2011-07-22 17:14:04 UTC
Do you know if this was reproducible on RHEL5.6 too?

Comment 3 Liang Zheng 2011-07-25 03:01:11 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Do you know if this was reproducible on RHEL5.6 too?
yes.

Comment 4 Liang Zheng 2011-07-25 03:03:56 UTC
It can be triggered the panic on 2.6.18-238.el5.

Comment 7 Andy Gospodarek 2011-10-21 16:38:33 UTC
No response.

Please reopen if this is not fixed by patch for bug 698728.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 698728 ***


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