Kernel panic at vmmon:PhysTrack_Add+0x64/0x93

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Issue

  • Kernel panic with following error messages:
Pid: 18409, comm: vmware-vmx Tainted: P      2.6.18-164.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff88719d94>]  [<ffffffff88719d94>] :vmmon:PhysTrack_Add+0x64/0x93
RSP: 0018:ffff810a72eadd18  EFLAGS: 00013206
RAX: 0000000000000e61 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0810081008101671
RDX: 0000000000000369 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffff811b3b4b0000
RBP: 0000000000000369 R08: ffff81108008130e R09: 0000000000a7a6ba
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff811b3b4b0000
R13: 0000000000000369 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000f7efa000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8110800817c0(0063) knlGS:00000000f7ef2b80
CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000000f7efa000 CR3: 0000002b5f46a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process vmware-vmx (pid: 18409, threadinfo ffff810a72eac000, task ffff810b560b7820)
Stack:  0000000001b4f309 0000000001b4f309 ffff811b32b98000 0000000001b4f309
 00000000000f7efa ffffffff88717d14 ffff810a72eade24 00000000f7efa000
 ffff8110a5f599f8 ffff811b32b98000 00000000fffffffe 00000000f7efa000
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff88717d14>] :vmmon:HostIF_LockPage+0x1aa/0x1bc
 [<ffffffff8871b421>] :vmmon:Vmx86_LockPage+0x42/0x6c
 [<ffffffff88715d85>] :vmmon:LinuxDriver_Ioctl+0x1b0/0x8ca
 [<ffffffff80016a70>] prio_tree_insert+0x23/0x231
 [<ffffffff80021f3f>] __up_read+0x19/0x7f
 [<ffffffff80066b58>] do_page_fault+0x4fe/0x830
 [<ffffffff8001cbd7>] vma_link+0xd0/0xfd
 [<ffffffff8000e139>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x66c/0x7d7
 [<ffffffff887164c2>] :vmmon:LinuxDriver_CompatIoctl+0x23/0x36
 [<ffffffff800f8606>] compat_sys_ioctl+0xc5/0x2b2
 [<ffffffff8006149d>] sysenter_do_call+0x1e/0x6a


Code: 8a 11 0f b6 c2 85 c6 74 1a ba d5 00 00 00 48 c7 c6 f7 df 71 
RIP  [<ffffffff88719d94>] :vmmon:PhysTrack_Add+0x64/0x93
 RSP <ffff810a72eadd18>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
  • kernel-2.6.18-164.el5
  • vmmon module

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