kernel panic occurred in s_show().

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Issue

  • A kernel panic occurred, Checking dump information collected at that time, it was seen that the panic occurred in s_show().
  • Excerpt from vmcore information
crash> sys
      KERNEL: /mnt/debuginfo/vmlinux.2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64
    DUMPFILE: /mnt/esclogs/1505000924/999-user/vmcore  [PARTIAL DUMP]
        CPUS: 4
        DATE: Sun May  3 22:58:32 2015
      UPTIME: 01:11:19
LOAD AVERAGE: 1.11, 1.03, 1.00
       TASKS: 593
    NODENAME: <server>
     RELEASE: 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64
     VERSION: #1 SMP Wed Jun 13 18:24:36 EDT 2012
     MACHINE: x86_64  (2294 Mhz)
      MEMORY: 24 GB
       PANIC: ""

crash> log -m
:
<4>general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
<4>last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo
<4>CPU 3
<4>Modules linked in: splxmod(U) autofs4 sunrpc be2iscsi iscsi_boot_sysfs bnx2i cnic uio cxgb3i
libcxgbi cxgb3 mdio ib_iser rdma_cm ib_cm iw_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr ipv6 iscsi_tcp
libiscsi_tcp libiscsi vsock(U) scsi_transport_iscsi uinput ppdev parport_pc parport e1000 sg
vmware_balloon microcode vmci(U) i2c_piix4 i2c_core shpchp dsf(U) ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod
crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom vmw_pvscsi pata_acpi ata_generic ata_piix dm_mirror dm_region_hash
dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: speedstep_lib] <4>
<4>Pid: 8750, comm: gzip Not tainted 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 VMware, Inc.
VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform
<4>RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81162bf4>]  [<ffffffff81162bf4>] s_show+0xe4/0x330
<4>RSP: 0018:ffff8805c290dd98  EFLAGS: 00010086
<4>RAX: ffff88063fc224c0 RBX: 000000000000008e RCX: ffff88063fc22500
<4>RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00c0ffff88063fee RDI: ffff88063fc224d0
<4>RBP: ffff8805c290de18 R08: 000000000000001e R09: 000000000000001e
<4>R10: ffffffff817a2fe8 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: 00000000000010a4
<4>R13: ffffffff817a2fe8 R14: 0000000000000fe8 R15: 0000000000000000
<4>FS:  00007f45caa9f700(0000) GS:ffff880028380000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
<4>CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
<4>CR2: 000000000061a000 CR3: 00000005c2937000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
<4>DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
<4>DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
<4>Process gzip (pid: 8750, threadinfo ffff8805c290c000, task ffff8805e760aaa0)
<4>Stack:
<4> ffff880500000070 ffff880500000001 ffff880500000000 ffff88063fc22500
<4><d> ffff88063fc224c0 ffff8805c0b12ec0 ffff88063fc180d8 0000000000000000
<4><d> 0000000000000000 ffff88063fc10080 ffff8805c290de18 ffff8805c0b12ec0
<4>Call Trace:
<4> [<ffffffff8119db87>] seq_read+0x267/0x3f0
<4> [<ffffffff811e0b7e>] proc_reg_read+0x7e/0xc0
<4> [<ffffffff8117b8b5>] vfs_read+0xb5/0x1a0
<4> [<ffffffff8117b9f1>] sys_read+0x51/0x90
<4> [<ffffffff8100b0f2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
<4>Code: 10 48 39 fe 74 34 4c 8b 45 c8 45 8b 88 18 80 00 00 45 89 c8 0f 1f 00
4d 85 ed 75 0f 44 39 4e 20 49 c7 c2 e8 2f 7a 81 4d 0f 45 ea <48> 8b 36 4d 01
c4 48 83 c3 01 48 39 fe 75 dd 48 8b 30 48 39 f0
<1>RIP  [<ffffffff81162bf4>] s_show+0xe4/0x330 <4> RSP <ffff8805c290dd98>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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