Kernel panic due to general protection fault because of single bit-flip
Issue
- Kernel panic with following call traces;
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:01.0/0000:8a:00.0/host7/rport-7:0-3/target7:0:2/7:0:2:67/state
CPU 11
Modules linked in: iptable_filter ip_tables nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss exportfs autofs4 dlm configfs sunrpc bonding 8021q garp stp llc ipv6 dm_round_robin microcode serio_raw power_meter ch osst st igb dca ptp pps_core tg3 sg iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support hpilo hpwdt i7core_edac edac_core shpchp ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt hpsa radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core dm_multipath dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W --------------- 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 #1 HP ProLiant DL580 G7
RIP: 0010:[<ffff7fff8103ba4a>] [<ffff7fff8103ba4a>] 0xffff7fff8103ba4a
RSP: 0018:ffff881c2d4f5d98 EFLAGS: 00010002
RAX: 00000000010e5082 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000838
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000010e5082 RDI: 0000000000000838
RBP: ffff881c2d4f5d98 R08: ffff88106a64e0e0 R09: ffff88106a6515a8
R10: 00001d9c1e176b7a R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88106a64e0e0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff817c2fbc R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88106a640000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000000021f2578 CR3: 0000000e0e140000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff881c2d4f4000, task ffff8810296f8040)
Stack:
ffff881c2d4f5da8 ffffffff81033e67 ffff881c2d4f5db8 ffffffff8102e90d
<d> ffff881c2d4f5dc8 ffffffff810a6594 ffff881c2d4f5e08 ffffffff810a7ae5
<d> ffffffff8100bb8e 00001d9c1e176b7a ffff88106a6516a0 ffff88106a6515e8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81033e67>] native_apic_msr_write+0x37/0x40
[<ffffffff8102e90d>] lapic_next_event+0x1d/0x30
[<ffffffff810a6594>] clockevents_program_event+0x54/0xa0
[<ffffffff810a7ae5>] tick_dev_program_event+0x65/0xc0
[<ffffffff8100bb8e>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0xe/0x20
[<ffffffff810a7bba>] tick_program_event+0x2a/0x30
[<ffffffff8109ab9f>] hrtimer_force_reprogram+0x7f/0x90
[<ffffffff8109ac4f>] __remove_hrtimer+0x9f/0xb0
[<ffffffff8109be8b>] hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x9b/0xd0
[<ffffffff8109bee2>] hrtimer_cancel+0x22/0x30
[<ffffffff810a86ab>] tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0xfb/0x190
[<ffffffff81009ff9>] cpu_idle+0xe9/0x110
[<ffffffff81506b1c>] start_secondary+0x2ac/0x2ef
Code: Bad RIP value.
RIP [<ffff7fff8103ba4a>] 0xffff7fff8103ba4a
RSP <ffff881c2d4f5d98>
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-2.6.32-358.el6
- HP ProLiant DL580 G7, BIOS P65 10/01/2013
- Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7- 4860 @ 2.27GHz
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