System crashed with 'general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP'
Issue
- System is crashing as soon as it is trying to access '/proc' entries
- It's crashing with 'general protection fault' message
[169852.210624] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
[169852.211010] Modules linked in: dm_round_robin iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi vhost_net macvtap macvlan tun vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio binfmt_misc ip6table_filter ip6_tables ebtable_nat ebtables 8021q garp mrp im_ctrl(OF) reset_ctrl(OF) master_active_ctrl(OF) dup_ctrl(OF) gpio_event_ctrl(OF) epld_info_ctrl(OF) env_ctrl(OF) led_ctrl(OF) cpld_ctrl(OF) i2c_dev m25p80(OF) pch_spi(OF) spi(OF) bonding mtd sg iptable_filter ip_tables iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support ext4 mbcache jbd2 intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd pcspkr sb_edac edac_core i2c_i801 mfd_core shpchp dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log nfsd auth_rpcgss bridge dm_multipath nfs_acl stp lockd llc dm_mod
[169852.211010] sunrpc uinput xfs libcrc32c sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_common ixgbe igb ahci mdio libahci ptp i2c_algo_bit i2c_core pps_core libata dca [last unloaded: acpi_cpufreq]
[169852.211010] CPU: 2 PID: 30193 Comm: grep Tainted: GF O-------------- 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 #1
[169852.211010] task: ffff881013992d80 ti: ffff8800761c4000 task.ti: ffff8800761c4000
[169852.211010] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811c645e>] [<ffffffff811c645e>] vfs_read+0xae/0x170
[169852.334073] RSP: 0018:ffff8800761c7f10 EFLAGS: 00010206
[169852.334073] RAX: 000000000000014b RBX: ffff880077444c00 RCX: 0000000000000000
[169852.334073] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 20200a3e3e207363 RDI: ffff881026cb1e80
[169852.334073] RBP: ffff8800761c7f30 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 000000000000fffe
[169852.334073] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff8800761c7d7e R12: 000000000000014b
[169852.334073] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007fd1d6966000
[169852.334073] FS: 00007fd1d7a08740(0000) GS:ffff88103f880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[169852.334073] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[169852.334073] CR2: 000000000067b048 CR3: 000000100a6c7000 CR4: 00000000001427e0
[169852.334073] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[169852.334073] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[169852.334073] Stack:
[169852.334073] ffff880077444c00 00007fd1d6966000 00000000002fc000 0000000000000000
[169852.334073] ffff8800761c7f78 ffffffff811c6f78 ffff8800761c7f78 0000000000000000
[169852.334073] 0000000011ba477c 00000000002fc000 00007fd1d6966000 0000000000000003
[169852.334073] Call Trace:
[169852.334073] [<ffffffff811c6f78>] SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
[169852.334073] [<ffffffff81613da9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[169852.334073] Code: 28 4c 89 e9 4c 89 e6 48 89 df 48 8b 40 10 48 85 c0 0f 84 a6 00 00 00 ff d0 49 89 c4 4d 85 e4 7e 61 48 8b 73 18 41 bd 01 00 00 00 <4c> 8b 76 30 41 0f b7 06 66 25 00 f0 66 3d 00 40 b8 01 00 00 40
[169852.334073] RIP [<ffffffff811c645e>] vfs_read+0xae/0x170
[169852.334073] RSP <ffff8800761c7f10>
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Custom modules are loaded
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