Kernel BUG at drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h:135

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Kernel panicked with the following messages:

Kernel BUG at drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h:135
invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP
last sysfs file: /class/net/eth6/broadcast
CPU 2
Modules linked in: ip_vs_wlc ip_vs_wrr ip6table_mangle ip_vs autofs4 ipmi_wat
og ipmi_devintf ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler sunrpc bonding ip_conntrack_netbios_n
ptable_mangle iptable_nat ip_nat ipt_REJECT xt_limit ipt_LOG xt_state ip_conn
ck nfnetlink xt_multiport iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT xt_tcpudp ip6t
e_filter ip6_tables x_tables ipv6 xfrm_nalgo crypto_api cpufreq_ondemand acpi
ufreq freq_table mperf dm_mirror dm_multipath scsi_dh video backlight sbs pow
meter hwmon i2c_ec dell_wmi wmi button battery asus_acpi acpi_memhotplug ac p
ort_pc lp parport i5000_edac sg ide_cd serio_raw edac_mc igb pcspkr i2c_i801
om i2c_core 8021q dca tpm_tis tpm tpm_bios e1000e dm_raid45 dm_message dm_reg
_hash dm_log dm_mod dm_mem_cache ata_piix libata shpchp mptsas mptscsih mptba
scsi_transport_sas ext3 jbd usb_storage sd_mod scsi_mod uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehc
cd
Pid: 19039, comm: ifenslave Not tainted 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff885867dd>]  [<ffffffff885867dd>] :bonding:bond_do_ioctl+0
f/0x4ed
RSP: 0018:ffff8101efb59d88  EFLAGS: 00010296
RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: 0000000000008995 RCX: ffff8101efb59e00
RDX: ffff81025e768000 RSI: ffff8101efb59e2c RDI: ffff81025c317534
RBP: ffff81025cfb0200 R08: ffff81025c317000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff8858636e R12: ffff81025c317500
R13: ffff81025e768000 R14: ffff81025c317000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00002b5f8385a6e0(0000) GS:ffff81010860e340(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000033cdd18580 CR3: 00000001f0f3e000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process ifenslave (pid: 19039, threadinfo ffff8101efb58000, task ffff8101eeaf
0)
Stack:  ffff8101084f6408 ffffffff00000000 000000025fd37025 ffffffff80232a27
0000000000008995 ffff8101efb59e18 ffff8101efb59e18 0000000000008995
0000000000000000 ffff8101efb59e18 00007fff71e3b790 ffffffff80234837
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80232a27>] __dev_get_by_name+0x71/0x84
[<ffffffff80234837>] dev_ioctl+0x386/0x465
[<ffffffff800477d5>] sprintf+0x51/0x59
[<ffffffff8022a591>] sock_ioctl+0x1d4/0x1e5
[<ffffffff800423e9>] do_ioctl+0x21/0x6b
[<ffffffff800303d6>] vfs_ioctl+0x457/0x4b9
[<ffffffff800b9607>] audit_syscall_entry+0x1a4/0x1cf
[<ffffffff8004c8f3>] sys_ioctl+0x59/0x78
[<ffffffff8005d28d>] tracesys+0xd5/0xe0

Code: 0f 0b 68 aa e4 58 88 c2 87 00 49 8d 5c 24 34 48 89 df e8 80
RIP  [<ffffffff885867dd>] :bonding:bond_do_ioctl+0x46f/0x4ed
RSP <ffff8101efb59d88>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - any kernel prior 2.6.18-243.el5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 - any z-stream kernel prior 2.6.18-238.6.1.el5

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