System crashed with message "kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:1715!"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System was crashed with the below message.
[149899.671969] kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:1715!
[149899.671988] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP 
[..]
[149899.672556] CPU: 23 PID: 177682 Comm: x100_server Not tainted 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 #1
[149899.672594] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/072T6D, BIOS 2.4.3 01/17/2017
[149899.672630] task: ffff8867a6748b80 ti: ffff882773b30000 task.ti: ffff882773b30000
[149899.673829] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811b40b0>]  [<ffffffff811b40b0>] policy_zonelist+0x50/0xa0
[..]
[149899.691372] Call Trace:
[149899.692392]  [<ffffffff811b78b8>] alloc_pages_vma+0x88/0x140
[149899.693540]  [<ffffffff811b79c5>] new_vma_page+0x55/0x60
[149899.694592]  [<ffffffff811c71f9>] migrate_pages+0x1e9/0x790
[149899.695648]  [<ffffffff811b7970>] ? alloc_pages_vma+0x140/0x140
[149899.696670]  [<ffffffff811b8102>] SYSC_mbind+0x542/0x6e0
[149899.697673]  [<ffffffff811b82ae>] SyS_mbind+0xe/0x10
[149899.698720]  [<ffffffff81645909>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[149899.699701] Code: c0 85 db 48 63 d2 0f 95 c0 48 8b 14 d5 20 5d a6 81 48 69 c0 20 22 01 00 5b 5d 48 8d 84 02 00 20 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 <0f> 0b 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 89 fb 81 e3 00 00 04 00 f6 46 06 02 75 
[149899.701809] RIP  [<ffffffff811b40b0>] policy_zonelist+0x50/0xa0
[149899.702816]  RSP <ffff882773b33d08>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

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