Kernel Panic at "kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:3069!"

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Issue

  • System crashed with following panic message:
kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:3069!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP 
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/online
[..]
Pid: 29752, comm: check_cpu_perf. Tainted: P           -- ------------    2.6.32-696.6.3.el6.x86_64 #1 HP ProLiant DL360 G7
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8117fb24>]  [<ffffffff8117fb24>] cache_alloc_refill+0x1e4/0x240
RSP: 0018:ffff88019b31fc90  EFLAGS: 00010046
[..]
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81180a67>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x167/0x190
 [<ffffffff811b9d73>] dup_fd+0x33/0x330
 [<ffffffff810edf05>] ? audit_alloc+0xb5/0x180
 [<ffffffff8107b072>] copy_process+0xd72/0x1520
 [<ffffffffa05cbfd7>] m_copy_process+0x67/0x70 [secfs2]
 [<ffffffffa04a8db9>] ? qhash_PTR_tbl_optimized_add+0x189/0x1a0 [scdrv]
 [<ffffffff8107b8b6>] do_fork+0x96/0x4c0
 [<ffffffffa04a8e61>] ? qhash_INT32_tbl_add+0x21/0xf0 [scdrv]
 [<ffffffffa048d7f7>] ? pst_clone_pre_handler_parent+0x107/0x160 [scdrv]
 [<ffffffffa049f074>] ? sch_stub_clone+0x58/0x170 [scdrv]
 [<ffffffff81009598>] sys_clone+0x28/0x30
 [<ffffffff8100b3f3>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
 [<ffffffffa049f0d7>] ? sch_stub_clone+0xbb/0x170 [scdrv]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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