System crashed with "Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction()" message on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue
- System crashed with following panic message:
Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at fs/jbd/commit.c:485: "commit_transaction->t_nr_buffers <=
commit_transaction->t_outstanding_credits"
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Kernel BUG at fs/jbd/commit.c:485
invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP
last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:20/0000:20:01.0/0000:21:01.0/0000:22:06.1/irq
CPU 1
Modules linked in: ipmi_devintf ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler bonding dm_round_robin dm_multipath scsi_dh video backlight sbs
i2c_ec button battery asus_acpi acpi_memhotplug ac parport_pc lp parport i2c_amd756 i2c_core amd_rng floppy tg3 serio_raw
edac_mc pcspkr e1000 ide_cd k8temp sg cdrom hwmon libphy dm_raid45 dm_message dm_region_hash dm_mem_cache dm_snapshot
dm_zero dm_mirror dm_log dm_mod qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc shpchp mptspi mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_spi sd_mod scsi_mod
ext3 jbd uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd
Pid: 2840, comm: kjournald Not tainted 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff88033a78>] [<ffffffff88033a78>] :jbd:journal_commit_transaction+0x692/0x10e6
RSP: 0018:ffff81026da81de0 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 000000000000009d RBX: ffff8103ffd9754c RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 00000000000000ff RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff802f7aa0
RBP: ffff8103ffd97400 R08: ffffffff802f7aa8 R09: 0000000000000046
R10: ffff81026da81a90 R11: 0000000000000280 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff81025ef9f3c0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8103fb2e3000
FS: 00002b55a855e670(0000) GS:ffff81010e1117c0(0000) knlGS:00000000eb779b90
CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000000006408a0 CR3: 000000006bba0000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process kjournald (pid: 2840, threadinfo ffff81026da80000, task ffff8103fb14f040)
Stack: ffff8103fb2e3000 0000000000002695 ffff810300000000 0000000000000000
0000000300000000 ffff81010e116100 0000000000000286 ffffffff8003d525
ffff8103ffd97590 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000286 ffffffff8004abc9
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8003d525>] lock_timer_base+0x1b/0x3c
[<ffffffff8004abc9>] try_to_del_timer_sync+0x51/0x5a
[<ffffffff8803757d>] :jbd:kjournald+0xc1/0x213
[<ffffffff8009dba4>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[<ffffffff8009d98c>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0xc4
[<ffffffff880374bc>] :jbd:kjournald+0x0/0x213
[<ffffffff8009d98c>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0xc4
[<ffffffff80032380>] kthread+0xfe/0x132
[<ffffffff8005dfb1>] child_rip+0xa/0x11
[<ffffffff8009d98c>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0xc4
[<ffffffff80032282>] kthread+0x0/0x132
[<ffffffff8005dfa7>] child_rip+0x0/0x11
Code: 0f 0b 68 74 8e 03 88 c2 e5 01 45 31 e4 45 31 ff c7 44 24 18
RIP [<ffffffff88033a78>] :jbd:journal_commit_transaction+0x692/0x10e6
RSP <ffff81026da81de0>
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4) - all versions
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) - all current versions
- EXT3 filesystems are in use.
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