System panic soon after 'Attempt to release' kernel error
Issue
- System panics very soon after either of these messages
IPv4: Attempt to release alive inet socket [kernel address]
IPv4: Attempt to release TCP socket in state 1 [kernel address]
Note: state could be random numeric value - System generated a vmcore soon after above messages with stack such as:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
IP: [<ffffffffb0f0b183>] sock_has_perm+0x43/0x90
...
[<ffffffffb0f0b2b3>] selinux_socket_recvmsg+0x23/0x30
[<ffffffffb0f086bc>] security_socket_recvmsg+0x1c/0x20
[<ffffffffb123267c>] sock_aio_read.part.9+0xdc/0x170
[<ffffffffb0f0a98c>] ? avc_has_perm_flags+0xdc/0x1c0
[<ffffffffb0e6437d>] ? core_sys_select+0x26d/0x340
[<ffffffffb1232731>] sock_aio_read+0x21/0x30
[<ffffffffb0e4c5e3>] do_sync_read+0x93/0xe0
- System generated a vmcore soon after
Attempt to release
error followed by warning innet/ipv4/af_inet.c:152 inet_sock_destruct+0x1a9
with stack such as:
[<ffffffff94edc2e9>] ? inet_sock_destruct+0x1a9/0x1e0
[<ffffffff9489bd3a>] __warn+0xfa/0x100
[<ffffffff9489be5d>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
[<ffffffff94edc2e9>] inet_sock_destruct+0x1a9/0x1e0
[<ffffffff94ecde35>] udp_destruct_sock+0x85/0xa0
[<ffffffff94e37bd9>] __sk_destruct+0x29/0x180
[<ffffffff9495ade8>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x1d8/0x570
[<ffffffff948a5695>] __do_softirq+0xf5/0x280
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL7)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL8)
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