Multiple RHEL6 guests often crash due to memory corruptions after migrating those guests from RHEL6 KVM host to RHEL7.7 KVM host.
Issue
- Multiple RHEL6 guests often crash due to memory corruptions after migrating those guests from RHEL6 KVM host to RHEL7.7 KVM host.
RELEASE: 2.6.32-754.35.1.el6.x86_64
PANIC: "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffb78eeda94f0b"
PID: 4228 TASK: ffff8800101cb520 CPU: 1 COMMAND: "cat"
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[exception RIP: s_show+213]
RIP: ffffffff81188535 RSP: ffff8801c243bd68 RFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: ffff88021fc215c0 RBX: 0000000000000051 RCX: ffff88021fc21600
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffb78eeda94eeb RDI: ffff88021fc215d0
RBP: ffff8801c243bde8 R8: 0000000000000004 R9: 0000000000000004
R10: ffffffff817d726d R11: 0000000000000004 R12: 0000000000000144
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000dd2 R15: 0000000000000000
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#9 [ffff8801c243bdf0] seq_read at ffffffff811c943d
#10 [ffff8801c243be70] proc_reg_read at ffffffff8120faf0
#11 [ffff8801c243bec0] vfs_read at ffffffff811a3447
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RELEASE: 2.6.32-754.35.1.el6.x86_64
PANIC: "general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP "
PID: 21684 TASK: ffff8800be415520 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "java"
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[exception RIP: vring_interrupt+25]
RIP: ffffffffa0054369 RSP: ffff880028203e48 RFLAGS: 00010096
RAX: 9480000000000000 RBX: ffff880215a434a3 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000078 RSI: ffff880215a434a3 RDI: 000000000000000b
RBP: ffff880028203e58 R8: ffff88015dc28000 R9: ffff88015dc2bf18
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff8802167d8678 R14: 000000000000000b R15: 0000000000000001
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#6 [ffff880028203e60] vp_vring_interrupt at ffffffffa005b7a3 [virtio_pci]
#7 [ffff880028203eb0] vp_interrupt at ffffffffa005b842 [virtio_pci]
#8 [ffff880028203ed0] handle_IRQ_event at ffffffff810f9666
#9 [ffff880028203f20] handle_fasteoi_irq at ffffffff810fc1b8
#10 [ffff880028203f50] handle_irq at ffffffff8100e5da
#11 [ffff880028203f80] do_IRQ at ffffffff8156878c
--- <IRQ stack> ---
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RELEASE: 2.6.32-754.35.1.el6.x86_64
PANIC: "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)"
PID: 12418 TASK: ffff880219556ab0 CPU: 2 COMMAND: "cat"
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[exception RIP: s_show+228]
RIP: ffffffff81188544 RSP: ffff8802191dfd68 RFLAGS: 00010082
RAX: ffff88021fc217c0 RBX: 0000000000000032 RCX: ffff88021fc21800
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88021fc217d0
RBP: ffff8802191dfde8 R8: 0000000000000001 R9: 0000000000000001
R10: ffffffff817d726d R11: 0000000000000004 R12: 0000000000000032
R13: ffffffff817d726d R14: 0000000000000c26 R15: 0000000000000000
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#9 [ffff8802191dfdf0] seq_read at ffffffff811c943d
#10 [ffff8802191dfe70] proc_reg_read at ffffffff8120faf0
#11 [ffff8802191dfec0] vfs_read at ffffffff811a3447
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Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (The KVM host)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10.z (The KVM guests)
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