Kernel panic due to gc-agent

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Kernel panics with the following messages:
[152633.627107] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffc0979730
[152633.627400] PGD 8e413067 P4D 8e413067 PUD 8e415067 PMD 1113de067 PTE 0
[152633.627635] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[152633.627823] CPU: 0 PID: 2003808 Comm: gc-deception-ag Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W  OE    --------- -  - 4.18.0-513.24.1.el8_9.x86_64 #1
[152633.628034] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 12/12/2018
[152633.628219] RIP: 0010:do_vfs_ioctl+0x8c/0x690
[--]
[152633.630445] Call Trace:
[152633.630670]  ? __die_body+0x1a/0x60
[152633.630861]  ? no_context+0x1ba/0x3f0
[152633.631043]  ? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16c/0x1c0
[152633.631228]  ? do_page_fault+0x37/0x12d
[152633.631410]  ? page_fault+0x1e/0x30
[152633.631596]  ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x8c/0x690
[152633.631780]  ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xf2/0x140
[152633.631968]  ksys_ioctl+0x64/0xa0
[152633.632150]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x16/0x20
[152633.632333]  do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1b0
[152633.632515]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6
[152633.632702] RIP: 0033:0x7f22cdafd7cb

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Guardicore agents service manager gc-agent.service

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