Vmin Shift Instability issue on Intel® Core™ 13th and 14th Gen desktop processor

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unexplained kernel panic occurs on Intel® Core™ 13th and 14th Gen desktop processor.
  • Kernel panic with logs, for example:
[3256907.757333] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018
[3256907.760167] PGD 89fade067 P4D 89fade067 PUD 89fadf067 PMD 0 
[3256907.762986] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[3256907.765766] CPU: 1 PID: 2217092 Comm: ma_ts_gv400 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE    --------- -  - 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9.x86_64 #1
[3256907.771321] Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO, BIOS 2102 03/15/2024
[3256907.774097] RIP: 0010:__check_heap_object+0x34/0x110
[3256907.776834] Code: 72 18 48 2b 15 d5 81 08 01 49 89 d1 49 c1 f9 06 49 c1 e1 0c 4c 03 0d d3 81 08 01 4c 39 cf 0f 82 a9 00 00 00 48 89 f8 4c 29 c8 <44> 8b 4e 18 48 99 49 f7 f9 41 89 d2 0f 1f 44 00 00 8b 86 a8 01 00
[3256907.782342] RSP: 0018:ffffb06ccac2bd00 EFLAGS: 00010246
[3256907.785049] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff91845bfc8000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[3256907.787758] RDX: 00000000196ff200 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff91845bfc8000
[3256907.790437] RBP: 00000000000000d0 R08: 00000000000000d0 R09: ffff91845bfc8000
[3256907.793065] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000000000d0 R12: 0000000000000000
[3256907.795644] R13: ffff91845bfc80d0 R14: ffffb06ccac2be28 R15: 00000000000005b4
[3256907.798185] FS:  00007fe9aea6c740(0000) GS:ffff918e7f280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[3256907.800707] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[3256907.803191] CR2: 0000000000000018 CR3: 00000006cf18a000 CR4: 0000000000550ee0
[3256907.805655] PKRU: 55555554
[3256907.808066] Call Trace:
[3256907.810442]  ? __die_body+0x1a/0x60
[3256907.812788]  ? no_context+0x1ba/0x3f0
[3256907.815088]  ? xlog_cil_commit+0x758/0x880 [xfs]
[3256907.817382]  ? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16c/0x1c0
[3256907.819603]  ? do_page_fault+0x37/0x130
[3256907.821778]  ? page_fault+0x1e/0x30
[3256907.823906]  ? __check_heap_object+0x34/0x110
[3256907.825996]  __check_object_size+0x107/0x173
[3256907.828041]  tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x563/0xda0
[3256907.830061]  tcp_sendmsg+0x27/0x40
[3256907.832031]  sock_sendmsg+0x42/0x60
[3256907.833954]  __sys_sendto+0xee/0x160
[3256907.835828]  ? vfs_read+0x121/0x150
[3256907.837651]  ? sched_clock+0x5/0x10
[3256907.839424]  ? get_vtime_delta+0x13/0xe0
[3256907.841155]  ? sched_clock+0x5/0x10
[3256907.842835]  ? get_vtime_delta+0x13/0xe0
[3256907.844472]  __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30
[3256907.846081]  do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1b0
[3256907.847652]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6
[3256907.849195] RIP: 0033:0x7fe9ab805ec6
[3256907.850689] Code: 49 89 f4 55 53 89 fb 48 83 ec 10 e8 74 f8 ff ff 45 31 c9 45 31 c0 45 89 f2 89 c5 4c 89 ea 4c 89 e6 89 df b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 36 89 ef 48 89 44 24 08 e8 a6 f8 ff ff 48 8b
[3256907.853723] RSP: 002b:00007fff71250610 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
[3256907.855210] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000a RCX: 00007fe9ab805ec6
[3256907.856665] RDX: 00000000000000d0 RSI: 00007fff71250680 RDI: 000000000000000a
[3256907.858083] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[3256907.859472] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fff71250680
[3256907.860833] R13: 00000000000000d0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000000000d0
[3256907.875124] CR2: 0000000000000018

Environment

  • Intel® Core™ 13th and 14th Gen desktop processor
13th Generation Intel® Core™ 14th Generation Intel® Core™
i9-13900KS i9-14900KS
i9-13900K i9-14900K
i9-13900KF i9-14900KF
i9-13900F i9-14900F
i9-13900 i9-14900
i7-13700K i7-14700K
i7-13790F i7-14790F
i7-13700F i7-14700F
i7-13700 i7-14700
i5-13600K i5-14600K
i5-13600KF i5-14600KF

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