System crashed at "load_elf_binary+0x19f1"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System was crashed at load_elf_binary+0x19f1 while handling execve() system call.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000070
IP: [<ffffffff811fb3e1>] load_elf_binary+0x19f1/0x1b40
PGD 8000000238812067 PUD 0 
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP 
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/online
CPU 0 
Modules linked in: acdc(P)(U) dsa_filter(P)(U) gsch(U) redirfs(U) autofs4 ipt_REJECT xt_state xt_comment xt_multiport iptable_filter iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_tables ip6_tables ipv6 ppdev parport_pc parport microcode vmware_balloon sg i2c_piix4 shpchp ext3 jbd mbcache sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif ahci vmxnet3 vmw_pvscsi pata_acpi ata_generic ata_piix vmwgfx ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_core dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: dsa_filter]

Pid: 39552, comm: lsmod Tainted: P           -- ------------    2.6.32-696.23.1.el6.x86_64 #1 VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811fb3e1>]  [<ffffffff811fb3e1>] load_elf_binary+0x19f1/0x1b40
RSP: 0018:ffff880105f4fc88  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000ee2000 RBX: ffff8802348bb0c0 RCX: 00000000ffd3a31f
RDX: 00000000008df6fc RSI: 00000000a0b8667a RDI: ffff88002f617e70
RBP: ffff880105f4fe48 R08: 00000000bd6b5a3d R09: 000000004b40fd2a
R10: 000000007d2dbedd R11: 000000003db9095b R12: ffff880237c8bec0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000010 R15: ffff88023990f520
FS:  00007f80f609b700(0000) GS:ffff88002f600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000070 CR3: 00000002385c8000 CR4: 00000000000607f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process lsmod (pid: 39552, threadinfo ffff880105f4c000, task ffff88023990f520)
Stack:
 0000000000000001 0000000000000010 00007ffe79ae0fde 00007ffe79ae0c28
<d> 0000000000000000 0000000fffffeef2 0000000000000038 0000000000000040
<d> 0000000000000048 0000000000000050 0000000000000058 0000000000000060
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff811a589b>] search_binary_handler+0x13b/0x370
 [<ffffffff811a6647>] do_execve+0x217/0x2c0
 [<ffffffff810095ea>] sys_execve+0x4a/0x80
 [<ffffffff8155e351>] system_call_fastpath+0x2f/0x34
Code: ff 45 31 c9 41 b8 12 00 00 00 b9 05 00 00 00 ba 00 10 00 00 31 f6 e8 df 80 f6 ff 49 8b bf 80 04 00 00 48 83 c7 68 e8 7f 2d eb ff <49> c7 46 60 00 00 00 00 49 c7 46 58 00 00 00 00 49 c7 46 28 00 
RIP  [<ffffffff811fb3e1>] load_elf_binary+0x19f1/0x1b40
 RSP <ffff880105f4fc88>
CR2: 0000000000000070

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • acdc kernel module is loaded

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