NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000005d in tcp_enter_frto+0x102
Issue
- kernel panic with
tcp_write_queue_head()
return null, so thatskb=null
- NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000005d in
tcp_enter_frto+0x102
PANIC: "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000005d"
crash> bt
PID: 77 TASK: ffff887fceab7520 CPU: 18 COMMAND: "ksoftirqd/18"
#0 [ffff88c1c2203a10] machine_kexec at ffffffff8103fdcb
#1 [ffff88c1c2203a70] crash_kexec at ffffffff810d1dc2
#2 [ffff88c1c2203b40] oops_end at ffffffff8154d340
#3 [ffff88c1c2203b70] no_context at ffffffff810518cb
#4 [ffff88c1c2203bc0] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff81051b55
#5 [ffff88c1c2203c10] bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff81051c23
#6 [ffff88c1c2203c20] __do_page_fault at ffffffff8105231c
#7 [ffff88c1c2203d40] do_page_fault at ffffffff8154f2ce
#8 [ffff88c1c2203d70] page_fault at ffffffff8154c5d5
[exception RIP: tcp_enter_frto+0x102]
RIP: ffffffff814c9b42 RSP: ffff88c1c2203e28 RFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8811cde7b880 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000038 RDI: ffff8811cde7b880
RBP: ffff88c1c2203e38 R8: 0000000000000000 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: 000000000000000f R11: 0000000000000006 R12: ffff8811cde7b948
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: ffff8811cde7b880 R15: ffffffff814d4e70
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#9 [ffff88c1c2203e40] tcp_retransmit_timer at ffffffff814d4a78
#10 [ffff88c1c2203e70] tcp_write_timer at ffffffff814d5008
#11 [ffff88c1c2203ea0] run_timer_softirq at ffffffff8108f907
#12 [ffff88c1c2203f30] __do_softirq at ffffffff81085275
#13 [ffff88c1c2203fb0] call_softirq at ffffffff8100c38c
--- <IRQ stack> ---
#14 [ffff887fceac3e68] do_softirq at ffffffff8100fc90
#15 [ffff887fceac3e88] do_softirq at ffffffff8100fca5
#16 [ffff887fceac3ea8] ksoftirqd at ffffffff81084e10
#17 [ffff887fceac3ee8] kthread at ffffffff810a640e
#18 [ffff887fceac3f48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8100c28a
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) enabled.
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