Kernel panic in vsnprintf() function due to general protection fault.
Issue
- Kernel panic with following call traces:
general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP
last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:40/0000:40:01.0/0000:42:00.0/host1/rport-1:0-3/target1:0:1/1:0:1:146/timeout
CPU 16
Modules linked in: oracleacfs(PU) oracleadvm(PU) oracleoks(PU) mpt2sas scsi_transport_sas mptctl mptbase dell_rbu nfs nfs_acl netconsole autofs4 i2c_dev i2c_core ipmi_devintf ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler ocfs2(U) ocfs2_dlmfs(U) ocfs2_dlm(U) ocfs2_nodemanager(U) configfs lockd sunrpc bonding ipv6 xfrm_nalgo crypto_api dm_round_robin dm_multipath scsi_dh parport_pc lp parport joydev sg tpm_tis pcspkr i7core_edac tpm bnx2 edac_mc tpm_bios serio_raw dm_raid45 dm_message dm_region_hash dm_mem_cache dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_log dm_mod lpfc scsi_transport_fc shpchp megaraid_sas sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd
Pid: 18581, comm: osysmond.bin Tainted: P ---- 2.6.18-274.12.1.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8001aa8e>] [<ffffffff8001aa8e>] vsnprintf+0x5ee/0x627
RSP: 0018:ffff8146d4e5bc48 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: fffdffff802bf723 RBX: ffff810a45701860 RCX: ffff8146d4e5bcc8
RDX: ffffffff802bf723 RSI: 000000007fffffff RDI: ffff8103d0cce000
RBP: ffff8146d4e5bcc8 R08: ffffffff802bf70d R09: ffffffff802bf707
R10: 0000000000404000 R11: ffffffffffffffff R12: ffff8103d0cce000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000000f800 R15: ffff810450ccdfff
FS: 00002b963e828e60(0000) GS:ffff8140f0552240(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00002b03178ac000 CR3: 0000004738f9d000 CR4: 00000000000006a0
Process osysmond.bin (pid: 18581, threadinfo ffff8146d4e5a000, task ffff816075e85860)
Stack: 0000000000000000 000000007fffffff ffff8103d0cce000 fffdffff802bf723
0000000000001a46 ffff81207dcb7a98 ffff8146d4e5bd38 ffffffff8000985a
ffff8109ad57b00c ffff810a45701860 0000000000000000 ffff8103d0cce000
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8000985a>] __d_lookup+0xb0/0xff
[<ffffffff800472ec>] sprintf+0x51/0x59
[<ffffffff8000d5a8>] dput+0x2c/0x114
[<ffffffff8002cc34>] mntput_no_expire+0x19/0x89
[<ffffffff8009b19c>] lock_task_sighand+0x2c/0x53
[<ffffffff8010c651>] proc_pid_limits+0x93/0x168
[<ffffffff8010ac96>] proc_info_read+0x5f/0xb9
[<ffffffff8000b7c7>] vfs_read+0xcb/0x171
[<ffffffff80011d5a>] sys_read+0x45/0x6e
[<ffffffff8005d116>] system_call+0x7e/0x83
Code: 8a 00 84 c0 0f 85 9d fa ff ff 48 83 7c 24 08 00 74 11 4d 39
RIP [<ffffffff8001aa8e>] vsnprintf+0x5ee/0x627
RSP <ffff8146d4e5bc48>
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- kernel-2.6.18-274.12.1.el5
- Dell Inc. PowerEdge R910/0KYD3D
- Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7- 4870
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