Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system crashes with the following message "BUG_ON in fs/locks.c locks_free_lock()", Is there any known issues ?

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Issue

  • System crashes with kernel panic and dumps the vmcore.
  • Kernel BUG at fs/locks.c:175
  • crash> bt
    PID: 2536   TASK: ffff810107201080  CPU: 3   COMMAND: "nfsd"
    #0 [ffff8101f20b3410] crash_kexec at ffffffff800acd70
    #1 [ffff8101f20b34d0] __die at ffffffff80065127
    #2 [ffff8101f20b3510] die at ffffffff8006bc5d
    #3 [ffff8101f20b3540] do_invalid_op at ffffffff8006c21d
    #4 [ffff8101f20b3600] error_exit at ffffffff8005dde9
        [exception RIP: locks_free_lock+34]
        RIP: ffffffff8003fbb8  RSP: ffff8101f20b36b0  RFLAGS: 00010287
        RAX: ffff81010b903570  RBX: ffff81010b903558  RCX: 0000000000000000
        RDX: ffff810107201080  RSI: 0000000000000000  RDI: ffff81010b903558
        RBP: ffff8101ffb1bc38   R8: 0000000000000000   R9: 7fffffffffffffff
        R10: 0000000000000001  R11: 00000000000003e9  R12: 0000000000000004
        R13: ffff81010b903558  R14: 0000000000000000  R15: 0000000000000800
        ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
    #5 [ffff8101f20b36b8] __break_lease at ffffffff800e95fb
    #6 [ffff8101f20b3748] nfsd_open at ffffffff8848cd56
    #7 [ffff8101f20b3788] nfsd4_process_open2 at ffffffff884a0c9e
    #8 [ffff8101f20b3908] nfsd4_proc_compound at ffffffff8849884f
    #9 [ffff8101f20b3ea8] __down_read at ffffffff80064614
    #10 [ffff8101f20b3ee8] nfsd at ffffffff88489746
    #11 [ffff8101f20b3f48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8005dfb1

  • crash> bt
    PID: 17051  TASK: ffff8101a17e8040  CPU: 0   COMMAND: "top"
    #0 [ffff810194f1fba0] crash_kexec at ffffffff800ad9ce
    #1 [ffff810194f1fc60] __die at ffffffff80065157
    #2 [ffff810194f1fca0] die at ffffffff8006bcc7
    #3 [ffff810194f1fcd0] do_invalid_op at ffffffff8006c287
    #4 [ffff810194f1fd90] error_exit at ffffffff8005dde9
        [exception RIP: locks_free_lock+34]
        RIP: ffffffff8003fbc2  RSP: ffff810194f1fe48  RFLAGS: 00010202
        RAX: ffff810302de9570  RBX: ffff810302de9558  RCX: 0000000000000000
        RDX: ffff8101a17e8040  RSI: ffffffff80319910  RDI: ffff810302de9558
        RBP: ffff810319aba818   R8: ffff810319aba818   R9: ffff81010b6f0000
        R10: 0000000000000008  R11: 000000d0ffffffff  R12: 0000000000000001
        R13: 0000000000000000  R14: ffff81033918cdf0  R15: 0000000000000000
        ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
    #5 [ffff810194f1fe50] __posix_lock_file_conf at ffffffff800ea84a
    #6 [ffff810194f1feb0] fcntl_setlk at ffffffff80039e19
    #7 [ffff810194f1ff50] sys_fcntl at ffffffff8002e508
    #8 [ffff810194f1ff80] tracesys at ffffffff8005d28d (via system_call)
        RIP: 0000003f266c6789  RSP: 00007fffda568538  RFLAGS: 00000206
        RAX: ffffffffffffffda  RBX: ffffffff8005d28d  RCX: ffffffffffffffff
        RDX: 00007fffda5686e0  RSI: 0000000000000007  RDI: 0000000000000007
        RBP: 000000000ad5e430   R8: 00007fffda568640   R9: 00007fffda5685a0
        R10: 0000000000000008  R11: 0000000000000206  R12: 0000000000000000
        R13: 00007fffda5686e0  R14: 00007fffda568760  R15: 0000000000000000
        ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000048  CS: 0033  SS: 002b

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and 5.5

  • kernel-2.6.18-164.10.1.el5

  • kernel-2.6.18-194.17.1.el5

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