Kernel Panic at splxmod

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Following messages were output suddenly and Webserver system is not able to be used.
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: kernel BUG at include/linux/dcache.h:284!
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: invalid operand: 0000 [#1]
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: SMP
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: Modules linked in: joydev nls_utf8 boston(U) splxmod(U) dm_mirror dm_mod button battery ac bnx2 ext3 jbd ata_piix libata i2o_block i2o_core cciss usb_storage uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd sd_mod scsi_mod
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: CPU: 3
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: EIP: 0060:[<f8ba373a>] Tainted: P VLI
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.9-67.ELsmp)
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: EIP is at nonwildcard_match_inDir+0x12b/0x1ac [splxmod]
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c22c70e4 ecx: 000000db edx: f7e0289c
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00003efc ebp: 00003efc esp: d53fbe24
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: Process faxscript (pid: 16124, threadinfo=d53fb000 task=cf256730)
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: Stack: f7f1f780 f7e0289c c22c70e4 f715e680 00036f0c 00000000 d53fbf34 00000023
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000035 efcba360 00000035 d6eb6d00 d53fbebc
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: d53fbef8 efcba360 dd0eedf4 f7f1fe00 c01703d0 d6eb6d00 f72d6500 f72d65a0
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: Call Trace:
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: [<c01703d0>] dput+0x34/0x1a7
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: [<f8ba3ccd>] inExcDirs+0x8b/0x128 [splxmod]
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: [<f8ba4753>] needToScanThisClose+0xee/0x15b [splxmod]
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: [<f8ba2461>] closeHook+0x320/0x886 [splxmod]
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: [<c015bb2c>] do_sync_write+0x9e/0xcb
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: [<c012051d>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: [<c02d6b36>] __cond_resched+0x14/0x39
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: [<c015b514>] generic_file_llseek+0x30/0xcb
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: [<c01745bd>] dnotify_parent+0x1b/0x6e
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: [<c015bc33>] vfs_write+0xda/0xe2
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: [<c02d8607>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: [<c02d007b>] xfrm_policy_netlink+0x20/0x93
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: Code: c7 b8 01 00 00 00 e9 9a 00 00 00 8b 50 14 39 d0 75 55 8b 04 24 85 c0 74 04 f0 ff 40 28 8b 54 24 04 85 d2 74 11 8b 02 85 c0 75 08 <0f> 0b 1c 01 cc 95 ba f8 f0 ff 02 8d 54 24 04 89 e0 e8 b1 3e 5c
Dec 29 00:38:53 hostname kernel: <0>Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Tend Micro antivirus module(splxmod) loaded.

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