Kernel panic in "streams" module

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Issue

  • Kernel panic with following call traces.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c  <<<
 printing eip:
f8f370d4
*pde = 2dfc5001
Modules linked in: streams_c7m3ua(U) streams_c7sctpi(U) streams_c7tcap(U) streams_c7sccp(U) streams_c7l3rt(U) streams_pcimb(U) streams_sctp(U) streams_nrp(U) streams_lom(U) streams_mom(U) streams(U) pl2303 nfs fscache nfsd exportfs lockd nfs_acl ipv6 autofs4 sunrpc bonding cpufreq_ondemand dm_mirror dm_multipath dm_mod video sbs backlight i2c_ec button battery asus_acpi ac parport_pc lp parport sg i2c_i801 usbserial i2c_core e1000 serio_raw pcspkr usb_storage ata_piix libata megasr(U) sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd
CPU:    7
EIP:    0060:[<f915c26d>]    Tainted: PF     VLI
EFLAGS: 00010202   (2.6.18-53.el5PAE #1) 
EIP is at sctp_bundle_more+0x4fd/0x1510 [streams_sctp]
eax: da801964   ebx: 00000000   ecx: da801940   edx: 000005bc
esi: 00000ee5   edi: 000002b0   ebp: e07b2040   esp: e09f2d7c
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process LiS-2.18.1.0:7 (pid: 25826, ti=e09f2000 task=ee29faa0 task.ti=e09f2000)
Stack: d9fab640 f90a21d3 00000202 f90a29f7 e09f2da8 00000202 f909fe17 f91214e0 
       e09f2da8 f90a7b5c 000000fe 00000202 d9fab640 d9fab640 e01b7bc0 000005bc 
       000005bc 00000220 00000001 f90a45b9 00000000 e07b2040 e01b7bc0 da801640 
Call Trace:
 [<f90a21d3>] lis__kmalloc+0x73/0x90 [streams]
 [<f90a29f7>] lis_spin_lock_irqsave_fcn+0x37/0x70 [streams] <<<
 [<f909fe17>] lis_malloc+0xc7/0x120 [streams]
 [<f9158bde>] sctp_alloc_msg+0x4e/0x120 [streams_sctp]
 [<f915d9d8>] sctp_transmit_wakeup+0xf8/0x630 [streams_sctp]
 [<f909b8de>] lis_backenable+0x5e/0x1d0 [streams]
 [<f909dbbb>] lis_getq+0x10b/0x320 [streams]
 [<f917274d>] sctp_n_rsrv+0x41d/0x4e0 [streams_sctp]
 [<f909d818>] lis_lockq_fcn+0x68/0xf0 [streams]
 [<f909ea37>] lis_run_queues+0x4d7/0x870 [streams]
 [<f90988a1>] lis_thread_runqueues+0x111/0x250 [streams]
 [<c0481789>] locks_remove_posix+0x93/0xac
 [<c046d257>] filp_close+0x4e/0x54
 [<f90a2158>] lis__kfree+0x28/0x30 [streams]
 [<f909fbe9>] lis_free+0xb9/0x100 [streams]
 [<f9098790>] lis_thread_runqueues+0x0/0x250 [streams]
 [<f9098669>] lis_thread_func+0x69/0x80 [streams]
 [<f9098600>] lis_thread_func+0x0/0x80 [streams]
 [<c0405c3b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
 =======================
Code: 89 44 24 0c e8 15 4e f4 ff 8b 5c 24 68 85 db 74 5a 8b 54 24 78 85 d2 74 52 8b 4c 24 64 85 c9 74 4a 8b 4c 24 68 8b 41 14 8b 58 04 <f6> 43 31 40 0f 84 96 0e 00 00 8b 73 2c 3b 74 24 64 0f 87 ac 0f 
EIP: [<f915c26d>] sctp_bundle_more+0x4fd/0x1510 [streams_sctp] SS:ESP 0068:e09f2d7c
 <0>Oops: 0000 [#2]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux [ALL]
  • streams unsigned(U) module

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