Kernel Panic in secfs2

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • System experienced a kernel panic with the following signature:
general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP 
last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/0000:0a:00.0/host4/rport-4:0-0/target4:0:0/4:0:0:9/timeout
CPU 0 
Modules linked in: mptctl mptbase ipmi_devintf ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler secvm2(PFU) secfs2(PU) lockd sunrpc bonding be2iscsi ib_iser rdma_cm ib_cm iw_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr iscsi_tcp bnx2i cnic ipv6 xfrm_nalgo crypto_api uio cxgb3i libcxgbi cxgb3 8021q libiscsi_tcp libiscsi2 scsi_transport_iscsi2 scsi_transport_iscsi dm_round_robin dm_multipath scsi_dh video backlight sbs power_meter hwmon i2c_ec i2c_core dell_wmi wmi button battery asus_acpi acpi_memhotplug ac parport_pc lp parport sr_mod cdrom tpm_tis tpm hpilo i7core_edac shpchp bnx2 edac_mc tpm_bios sg serio_raw pcspkr dm_raid45 dm_message dm_region_hash dm_mem_cache dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_log dm_mod qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc ata_piix libata cciss sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd
Pid: 7046, comm: secfst Tainted: PF    ---- 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8008cdd4>]  [<ffffffff8008cdd4>] __wake_up_common+0x24/0x68
RSP: 0018:ffff810293ef1e38  EFLAGS: 00010092
RAX: 0000000000000296 RBX: ffff81048f4e3858 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff81048f4e3858
RBP: ffff810293ef1e68 R08: ff00637379733262 R09: 0000000000000200
R10: ffff8104a7faa2a8 R11: 00000000121314f3 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff81048f4e3858 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00002ae25e5386e0(0000) GS:ffffffff8042d000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 000000000086153d CR3: 000000049a0b0000 CR4: 00000000000006a0
Process secfst (pid: 7046, threadinfo ffff810293ef0000, task ffff8102955cb7e0)
Stack:  0000000300000000 ffff81048f4e3858 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
 0000000000000296 0000000000000003 ffff810293ef1ea8 ffffffff8002dfeb
 0000000000100100 ffff81045f420488 ffff810467b95e48 ffffffff8878542d
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8002dfeb>] __wake_up+0x38/0x4f
 [<ffffffff8878542d>] :secfs2:encrypt_thread+0x0/0x253
 [<ffffffff80064787>] __up_wakeup+0x35/0x67
 [<ffffffff887834ec>] :secfs2:.text.lock.vm_linux_kernel+0x55/0xa1
 [<ffffffff88785001>] :secfs2:enc_page_job_done+0x23/0x88
 [<ffffffff88785613>] :secfs2:encrypt_thread+0x1e6/0x253
 [<ffffffff8005dfb1>] child_rip+0xa/0x11
 [<ffffffff8878542d>] :secfs2:encrypt_thread+0x0/0x253
 [<ffffffff8878542d>] :secfs2:encrypt_thread+0x0/0x253
 [<ffffffff800ba20d>] audit_syscall_exit+0x329/0x344
 [<ffffffff88787c23>] :secfs2:linux_wrapper_thread+0x0/0xcc
 [<ffffffff8005dfa7>] child_rip+0x0/0x11


Code: 49 8b 18 eb 2a 49 8d 78 e8 45 8b 68 e8 4c 89 f9 8b 55 d0 8b 
RIP  [<ffffffff8008cdd4>] __wake_up_common+0x24/0x68
 RSP <ffff810293ef1e38>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 5.7
  • secfs2 kernel module

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