Why Panic at show_map with process wscanuse ?
Issue
The server had a panic and got self rebooted with following panic string.
vgptool[14681]: [UnixLogger:NOTICE] [NOTICE 7/16/2012 18:01:32 controller.cpp:354] VGP Apply Policy - CallType: REFRESH
kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000001b8
kernel: printing eip:
kernel: c018548c
kernel: *pde = 27034001
kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
kernel: SMP
kernel: Modules linked in: nfs lockd nfs_acl md5 ipv6 autofs4 sunrpc dm_mirror button battery ac ohci_hcd tg3 ext3 jbd dm_mod
kernel: CPU: 0
kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c018548c>] Not tainted VLI
kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.9-34.ELsmp)
kernel: EIP is at show_map+0x70/0x111
kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: f67af5f4 ecx: 00000003 edx: f4df77b0
kernel: esi: 00100073 edi: e775e480 ebp: f52e9d80 esp: e6a41f24
kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
kernel: Process wscanuse (pid: 31112, threadinfo=e6a41000 task=f492d330)
kernel: Stack: 00000070 00125000 00000003 00000002 00070045 e6a41f40 f4df77b0 c032c980
kernel: c032c980 e775e480 00000000 f67af5f4 c0174680 00000203 00000000 00000400
kernel: b778c000 00000008 00000000 00000007 00000000 c032ce60 f5fa3880 00000400
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: [<c0174680>] seq_read+0x1c7/0x2c2
kernel: [<c015a43d>] vfs_read+0xb6/0xe2
kernel: [<c015a650>] sys_read+0x3c/0x62
kernel: [<c02d2657>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
kernel: [<c02d007b>] schedule+0x32f/0x8d3
kernel: Code: c1 e0 0c 50 89 f0 24 80 3c 01 19 c0 83 e0 fd 83 c0 73 f7 c6 04 00 00 00 50 75 1b 83 3d bc 11 41 c0 00 75 19 8b 54 24 18 8b 42 70 <8b> 80 b8 01 00 00 39 43 04 73 07 b8 78 00 00 00 eb 05 b8 2d 00
kernel: <0>Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds
syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
kernel: Linux version 2.6.9-34.ELsmp (<a class="make_room_for_kcs" href="mailto:bhcompile@hs20-bc1-7.build.redhat.com">bhcompile@hs20-bc1-7.build.redhat.com</a>) (gcc version 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)) #1 SMP Fri Feb 24 16:54:53 EST 2006
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3
- kernel-2.6.9-34.EL
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