RHEL6.3: kernel panic on mm/shmem.c:834 in shmem_delete_inode

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Issue

  • kernel panic on mm/shmem.c:834 in shmem_delete_inode
kernel BUG at mm/shmem.c:834!
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Pid: 3800, comm: java Not tainted 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 #1 Dell Inc. PowerEdge R610/0F0XJ6
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8112f9d2>]  [<ffffffff8112f9d2>] shmem_delete_inode+0x122/0x130
Process java (pid: 3800, threadinfo ffff880164d92000, task ffff88011204b540)
...
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8112f8b0>] ? shmem_delete_inode+0x0/0x130
 [<ffffffff8119133e>] generic_delete_inode+0xde/0x1d0
 [<ffffffff811902e2>] iput+0x62/0x70
 [<ffffffff81186222>] do_unlinkat+0x112/0x1c0
 [<ffffffff81140bc8>] ? do_munmap+0x308/0x3a0
 [<ffffffff811862e6>] sys_unlink+0x16/0x20
 [<ffffffff8100b072>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: b4 3b 00 e9 2e ff ff ff 90 48 81 c6 ff 0f 00 00 8b 15 03 5f ad 00 48 c7 c7 40 f1 fa 81 48 c1 ee 0c 48 f7 de e8 f0 d7 14 00 eb 88 <0f> 0b eb fe 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 
RIP  [<ffffffff8112f9d2>] shmem_delete_inode+0x122/0x130
 RSP <ffff880164d93e28>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
    • kernel-2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64

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