System crashes at ':xfs:xfs_bmbt_get_startoff+0xa/0x12'

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System crashed in XFS with the below messages
general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP 
...
Pid: 147697, comm: comdb2.tsk.R5.R Tainted: P     ---- 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff88ac77ae>]  [<ffffffff88ac77ae>] :xfs:xfs_bmbt_get_startoff+0xa/0x12
RSP: 0018:ffff811676e07e00  EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 7fffffffffffffff RBX: 732e34362d364878 RCX: 0000000100000100
RDX: ffff811fa8dd1860 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 732e34362d364878
RBP: ffff811676e07e38 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffff814030db0b30 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff81203468b000
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0007ffffffffd96e R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  0000000045859940(0063) GS:ffff8120402123c0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000003269a991e0 CR3: 0000001f284a1000 CR4: 00000000000006a0
Process comdb2.tsk.R5.R (pid: 147697, threadinfo ffff811676e06000, task ffff811fa8dd1860)
Stack:  ffffffff88abf01f ffff810e96347540 ffff81203468b000 ffff81203468b000
 ffffffff88adeb8b 0000000000100100 0000000000200200 0000000000000000
 0000000002692000 ffff810e96347540 ffffffff88adec48 ffff810e96347540
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff88abf01f>] :xfs:xfs_bmap_last_offset+0xbc/0xd5
 [<ffffffff88adeb8b>] :xfs:xfs_file_last_byte+0x24/0x8d
 [<ffffffff88adec48>] :xfs:xfs_itruncate_start+0x54/0x9b
 [<ffffffff88af3481>] :xfs:xfs_free_eofblocks+0x11d/0x1fe
 [<ffffffff88afb7d9>] :xfs:xfs_file_release+0x10/0x14
 [<ffffffff80012bdd>] __fput+0xd3/0x1bd
 [<ffffffff80023c62>] filp_close+0x5c/0x64
 [<ffffffff8001e0c4>] sys_close+0x88/0xbd
 [<ffffffff8005d28d>] tracesys+0xd5/0xe0


Code: 48 23 07 48 c1 e8 09 c3 48 8b 47 08 48 0f c8 25 ff ff 1f 00 
RIP  [<ffffffff88ac77ae>] :xfs:xfs_bmbt_get_startoff+0xa/0x12
 RSP <ffff811676e07e00>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • XFS filesystem

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