System crashed with error Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
Issue
System crashed with following error messages on console, need RCA
sdbg: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sdbg: assuming drive cache: write through
scsi 7:0:0:1: rejecting I/O to dead device
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 RIP:
[<ffffffff88488f87>] :emcp:emcp_open+0xa7/0x4e0
PGD 82913d067 PUD 828d06067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
last sysfs file: /block/sdbg/dev
CPU 12
[...]
Pid: 15459, comm: hald-addon-stor Tainted: P 2.6.18-238.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff88488f87>] [<ffffffff88488f87>] :emcp:emcp_open+0xa7/0x4e0
[...]Process hald-addon-stor (pid: 15459, threadinfo ffff811018e00000, task ffff81100f2b80c0)
Stack: ffff81011cb1ca18 ffffffff80063c57 ffff810829571d98 ffff810f6045e6c0
ffff81011cb1caf0 ffff81011cb1ca00 ffff81011cb1ca00 ffff81011cb1ca00
ffff810f6045e6c0 ffff81011cb1ca00 ffff81082ffe0400 ffffffff880aca80
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80063c57>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x68/0x9b
[<ffffffff800e775d>] do_open+0xa2/0x30f
[<ffffffff800e7c1e>] blkdev_open+0x0/0x4f
[<ffffffff800e7c41>] blkdev_open+0x23/0x4f
[<ffffffff8001ea94>] __dentry_open+0xd9/0x1dc
[<ffffffff800274fd>] do_filp_open+0x2a/0x38
[<ffffffff80063ce5>] do_nanosleep+0x47/0x70
[<ffffffff80019f5c>] do_sys_open+0x44/0xbe
[<ffffffff8005d116>] system_call+0x7e/0x83
Code: 48 8b 40 08 f6 80 cc 00 00 00 02 0f 85 d4 01 00 00 8b 05 ba
RIP [<ffffffff88488f87>] :emcp:emcp_open+0xa7/0x4e0
RSP <ffff811018e01d88>
Environment
- Red hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
- EMC PowerPath
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