VMware virtual system crash in pvscsi_queue()

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Issue

  • VMware virtual system crash in pvscsi_queue()
[1036405.561890] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
[1036405.561895] IP: [<ffffffffc016b1c4>] pvscsi_queue+0x44/0x920 [vmw_pvscsi]
[1036405.561901] PGD 7b4eb4067 PUD 338abe067 PMD 0 
[1036405.561904] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
....
[1036405.561939] CPU: 0 PID: 13005 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Kdump: loaded Tainted: P        W   EL ------------   3.10.0-957.10.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[1036405.561941] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 05/28/2020
[1036405.561952] Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:0)
[1036405.561954] task: ffff98c5612eb0c0 ti: ffff98bf3ceb4000 task.ti: ffff98bf3ceb4000
[1036405.561955] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffc016b1c4>]  [<ffffffffc016b1c4>] pvscsi_queue+0x44/0x920 [vmw_pvscsi]
[1036405.561959] RSP: 0018:ffff98bf3ceb7750  EFLAGS: 00010002
[1036405.561960] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff98c5843d56c0 RCX: 0000000000000001
[1036405.561961] RDX: 000000000026e017 RSI: ffff98c5843d56c0 RDI: ffff98c4bb433000
[1036405.561962] RBP: ffff98bf3ceb77b8 R08: 0000000000000010 R09: 0000000000000004
[1036405.561963] R10: ffff98c4bb4330d8 R11: ffff98c5843d56c0 R12: ffff98c5843d56c0
[1036405.561964] R13: ffff98c4bb433000 R14: ffff98c4bb433000 R15: ffff98c4bad89048
[1036405.561965] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff98c5bfc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[1036405.561967] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[1036405.561968] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000007d0e30000 CR4: 00000000003607f0
[1036405.561975] Call Trace:
[1036405.561982]  [<ffffffffc0176cdf>] ? sd_init_command+0x2f/0xc0 [sd_mod]
[1036405.561986]  [<ffffffff8c0d8a81>] ? scsi_setup_cmnd+0x111/0x1c0
[1036405.561988]  [<ffffffff8c0d99f0>] ? scsi_test_unit_ready+0x170/0x170
[1036405.561992]  [<ffffffff8c0d14c0>] scsi_dispatch_cmd+0xb0/0x240
[1036405.561994]  [<ffffffff8c0daa5c>] scsi_request_fn+0x4cc/0x680
[1036405.562004]  [<ffffffff8bf67cce>] ? deadline_add_request+0x6e/0x90
[1036405.562007]  [<ffffffff8bf436b9>] __blk_run_queue+0x39/0x50
[1036405.562009]  [<ffffffff8bf473b3>] blk_queue_bio+0x3b3/0x400
[1036405.562011]  [<ffffffff8bf45347>] generic_make_request+0x147/0x380
[1036405.562015]  [<ffffffff8be7e7b2>] ? bvec_alloc+0x92/0x120
[1036405.562016]  [<ffffffff8bf455f0>] submit_bio+0x70/0x150
[1036405.562018]  [<ffffffff8be7ea53>] ? bio_alloc_bioset+0x213/0x310
[1036405.562043]  [<ffffffffc0347165>] xfs_add_to_ioend+0x145/0x1d0 [xfs]
[1036405.562058]  [<ffffffffc0347787>] xfs_do_writepage+0x1d7/0x510 [xfs]
[1036405.562062]  [<ffffffff8bdc23c4>] write_cache_pages+0x254/0x4e0
[1036405.562076]  [<ffffffffc03475b0>] ? xfs_aops_discard_page+0x150/0x150 [xfs]
[1036405.562089]  [<ffffffffc03473ab>] xfs_vm_writepages+0x6b/0xa0 [xfs]
[1036405.562092]  [<ffffffff8bdc3511>] do_writepages+0x21/0x50
[1036405.562094]  [<ffffffff8be6ffa0>] __writeback_single_inode+0x40/0x260
[1036405.562096]  [<ffffffff8be70a34>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x1c4/0x490
....

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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