Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7, 6.1 or 6.2 on some systems ends in a panic, if the isci driver is not blacklisted
Issue
- Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7, 6.1 or 6.2 on some systems ends in a panic, if the isci driver is not blacklisted
- On installation of RHEL 6.1 I receive this:
isci: Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller Driver
isci 0000:05:00.0: driver configured for B0 silicon (rev: 4)
isci 0000:05:00.0: firmware: requesting isci/isci_firmware.bin
isci 0000:05:00.0: OEM SAS parameters (version: 1.0) loaded (firmware)
isci 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
isci 0000:05:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
scsi5 : isci
alloc irq_desc for 79 on node -1
alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
isci 0000:05:00.0: irq 79 for MSI/MSI-X
alloc irq_desc for 80 on node -1
alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
isci 0000:05:00.0: irq 80 for MSI/MSI-X
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
IP: [<ffffffffa01fb7e0>] scic_sds_phy_starting_substate_await_sata_phy_event_handler+0x100/0x110 [isci]
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/class
CPU 0
Modules linked in: isci libsas scsi_transport_sas fuse autofs4 sunrpc bnx2fc cnic uio fcoe libfcoe 8021q libfc garp stp llc scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table ipt_REJECT ip6t_REJECT ipv6 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log uinput power_meter hwmon microcode sg ghes hed iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support igb dca i2c_i801 i2c_core ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif pata_acpi ata_generic ata_piix megaraid_sas dm_mod [last unloaded: nf_conntrack]
Modules linked in: isci libsas scsi_transport_sas fuse autofs4 sunrpc bnx2fc cnic uio fcoe libfcoe 8021q libfc garp stp llc scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table ipt_REJECT ip6t_REJECT ipv6 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log uinput power_meter hwmon microcode sg ghes hed iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support igb dca i2c_i801 i2c_core ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif pata_acpi ata_generic ata_piix megaraid_sas dm_mod [last unloaded: nf_conntrack]
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G M ---------------- 2.6.32-131.4.1.el6.x86_64 #1 PRIMERGY
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa01fb7e0>] [<ffffffffa01fb7e0>] scic_sds_phy_starting_substate_await_sata_phy_event_handler+0x100/0x110 [isci]
RSP: 0018:ffff880028203d10 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000150
RDX: 000000000000000a RSI: 0000000033402000 RDI: ffff8804506505f0
RBP: ffff880028203d30 R08: ffffffff81ddd0f0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff880450650018
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880028200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000001a25000 CR4: 00000000000406f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81a00000, task ffffffff81a2d020)
Stack:
ffff88047febcc80 00000000000008d5 0000000000000014 ffff880450650018
<0> ffff880028203d40 ffffffffa01fb050 ffff880028203d90 ffffffffa01f390f
<0> 0000000000000476 0000000000000014 0000000000000476 ffff880028203d98
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
[<ffffffffa01fb050>] scic_sds_phy_event_handler+0x10/0x20 [isci]
[<ffffffffa01f390f>] scic_sds_controller_event_completion+0x1df/0x380 [isci]
[<ffffffffa01f3bf1>] scic_sds_controller_process_completions+0x141/0x5a0 [isci]
[<ffffffff810e7a64>] ? rb_reserve_next_event+0xb4/0x370
[<ffffffffa01f4195>] scic_sds_controller_completion_handler+0x75/0x80 [isci]
[<ffffffffa01ed014>] isci_host_completion_routine+0x54/0x2b0 [isci]
[<ffffffff8106f9c5>] tasklet_action+0xe5/0x120
[<ffffffff8106f6e1>] __do_softirq+0xc1/0x1d0
[<ffffffff810d6936>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0xf6/0x170
[<ffffffff8100c2cc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[<ffffffff8100df05>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
[<ffffffff8106f4c5>] irq_exit+0x85/0x90
[<ffffffff814e2a45>] do_IRQ+0x75/0xf0
[<ffffffff8100bad3>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11
<EOI>
[<ffffffff812e52f0>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x29c/0x2d0
[<ffffffff812e52e9>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x295/0x2d0
[<ffffffff813ec537>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xa7/0x140
[<ffffffff81009e86>] cpu_idle+0xb6/0x110
[<ffffffff814c2d0a>] rest_init+0x7a/0x80
[<ffffffff81bbdf28>] start_kernel+0x41d/0x429
[<ffffffff81bbd33a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x125/0x129
[<ffffffff81bbd438>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109
Code: 2d e1 89 d8 48 83 c4 18 5b c9 c3 e8 0b fa ff ff 89 d8 48 83 c4 18 5b c9 c3 66 90 e8 2b fc ff ff 89 d8 48 83 c4 18 5b c9 c3 66 90 <48> 8b 58 10 31 ff eb a1 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53
RIP [<ffffffffa01fb7e0>] scic_sds_phy_starting_substate_await_sata_phy_event_handler+0x100/0x110 [isci]
RSP <ffff880028203d10>
CR2: 0000000000000010
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7
- anaconda installer
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