Kernel panic due to bit-flip with Bad RIP value.

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Issue

  • Kernel panic with following call traces;
Unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffd8004f816 RIP: 
 [<fffffffd8004f816>]
PGD 203067 PUD 0 
Oops: 0010 [1] SMP 
last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:02:00.1/irq
CPU 0 
Modules linked in: iptable_nat ip_nat ip_conntrack nfnetlink iptable_mangle iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables mpt2sas scsi_transport_sas mptctl mptbase dell_rbu netconsole nfs nfs_acl autofs4 i2c_dev i2c_core ipmi_devintf ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss testmgr_cipher testmgr aead crypto_blkcipher crypto_algapi crypto_api des lockd sunrpc bonding dm_multipath scsi_dh parport_pc lp parport joydev sr_mod cdrom tpm_tis i7core_edac tpm sg tpm_bios edac_mc bnx2 serio_raw pcspkr dm_raid45 dm_message dm_region_hash dm_mem_cache dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_log dm_mod usb_storage ata_piix libata shpchp megaraid_sas sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.18-400.1.1.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<fffffffd8004f816>]  [<fffffffd8004f816>]
RSP: 0018:ffffffff804b5f08  EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: ffffffff804ae360 RBX: 0000000000000046 RCX: 7ffffffffffffffe
RDX: ffff811953e78000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: ffffffff8044df90
RBP: ffffffff80569f80 R08: 000000000000000d R09: ffffffff80467e98
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff8044df90
R13: 000000000000000a R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff80436000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: fffffffd8004f816 CR3: 0000002d66b9a000 CR4: 00000000000006a0
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff80466000, task ffffffff8031db60)
Stack:  fffffffd8009a747 0000000000000001 0000000080467e98 ffffffff8031db60
 0000000000000046 0000000000000001 ffffffff8044df90 000000000000000a
 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff800125bb 0000000000000046
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff800125bb>] __do_softirq+0x89/0x133
 [<ffffffff8005e298>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
 [<ffffffff8006d63a>] do_softirq+0x2c/0x7d
 [<ffffffff8005dc9e>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0x6c
 <EOI>  [<ffffffff801a7081>] acpi_processor_idle_simple+0x1c5/0x341
 [<ffffffff801a703e>] acpi_processor_idle_simple+0x182/0x341
 [<ffffffff801a6ebc>] acpi_processor_idle_simple+0x0/0x341
 [<ffffffff8004964d>] cpu_idle+0x95/0xb8
 [<ffffffff80471809>] start_kernel+0x220/0x225
 [<ffffffff8047122f>] _sinittext+0x22f/0x236

Code:  Bad RIP value.
RIP  [<fffffffd8004f816>]
 RSP <ffffffff804b5f08>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Dell Inc. PowerEdge R710/0PV9DG,
  • BIOS 6.4.0 07/23/2013

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