System crash due to be2net driver errors leading to multiple slab corruptions
Issue
- Server crashed after network link went down
- be2net and NIC firmware errors
- slab corruptions leading to list_del corruption
be2net firmware errors:
kernel: be2net 0000:04:00.0: Error in FW/Card <=
kernel: be2net 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link down
hp-ams[6018]: CRITICAL: Network Adapter Link Down (Slot 0, Port 1)
Slab corruption:
ffff883fe62f1680 biovec-128 2048 0 0 0 4k
ffff883fe62e1640 biovec-64 1024 0 0 0 4k
kmem: biovec-16: full list: slab: ffff882832402040 bad next pointer: 4341434544464446
kmem: biovec-16: full list: slab: ffff882832402040 bad prev pointer: 4341434143414341
kmem: biovec-16: full list: slab: ffff882832402040 bad s_mem pointer: ffff882801002000
ffff883fe62d1600 biovec-16 256 0 0 0 4k
...
...
ffff883fffb60b80 task_struct 2672 1040 1119 373 8k
kmem: cred_jar: partial list: slab: ffff882f0f813000 bad inuse counter: 2298544118
kmem: cred_jar: partial list: slab: ffff882f0f813000 bad s_mem pointer: 7f0a61f67f0af2eb
ffff883fffb50b40 cred_jar 192 148 320 16 4k
ffff883fffb40b00 anon_vma_chain 48 27166 33803 439 4k
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
be2net
driver- Driver version: 11.1.183.21
- Firmware version: 4.9.416.0
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