In RHEL6, nfs server can crash within lockd from dereferencing a NULL pointer in nlmsvc_unlink_block().
Issue
- nfs server can crash within
lockdfrom dereferencing a NULL pointer innlmsvc_unlink_block().
PID: 5331 TASK: ffff880828096ae0 CPU: 26 COMMAND: "lockd"
#0 [ffff880823f099f0] machine_kexec at ffffffff8103284b
#1 [ffff880823f09a50] crash_kexec at ffffffff810ba982
#2 [ffff880823f09b20] oops_end at ffffffff81501b00
#3 [ffff880823f09b50] no_context at ffffffff81043bfb
#4 [ffff880823f09ba0] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff81043e85
#5 [ffff880823f09bf0] bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff81043f53
#6 [ffff880823f09c00] __do_page_fault at ffffffff810446b1
#7 [ffff880823f09d20] do_page_fault at ffffffff81503ade
#8 [ffff880823f09d50] page_fault at ffffffff81500e95
[exception RIP: nlmsvc_unlink_block+49]
RIP: ffffffffa03ca861 RSP: ffff880823f09e00 RFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffa03d3d98 RCX: 000000000000ec98
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffffa03cbe70 RDI: ffffffffa03d3d98
RBP: ffff880823f09e20 R8: 0000000000017ac5 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: 000000000000000f R11: 000000000000000b R12: ffffffffa03d3da0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff880823f09e60 R15: 00000000000000bc
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#9 [ffff880823f09e28] nlmsvc_retry_blocked at ffffffffa03ca9f0 [lockd]
#10 [ffff880823f09e58] lockd at ffffffffa03ca236 [lockd]
#11 [ffff880823f09ee8] kthread at ffffffff81091e06
#12 [ffff880823f09f48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8100c14a
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- NFS
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