The kernel crashes due to a General Protection Fault occurs in mem_cgroup_from_obj()

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Issue

  • The kernel crashes due to a General Protection Fault occurs in mem_cgroup_from_obj()
[10278375.960920] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x3360ffff9b39d85f: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[10278375.960953] CPU: 2 PID: 1545926 Comm: kworker/u256:0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE     -------- -  - 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10.x86_64 #1
[10278375.960980] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
[10278375.961003] Workqueue: events_unbound call_usermodehelper_exec_work
[10278375.961023] RIP: 0010:mem_cgroup_from_obj.part.74+0xaf/0xf0
[10278375.961039] Code: d7 89 fa 48 0f af d1 0f b6 8e d4 00 00 00 48 c1 ea 20 29 d7 d3 ef 0f b6 8e d5 00 00 00 01 d7 d3 ef 48 8b 04 f8 48 85 c0 74 1e <48> 8b 40 38 c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8b 50 38 f6 c2 01 75 11 48 89 d0 48
[10278375.961076] RSP: 0018:ffffae37114dfb60 EFLAGS: 00010206
[10278375.961089] RAX: 3360ffff9b39d85f RBX: ffff9b38045bb040 RCX: 0000000000000007
[10278375.961105] RDX: 00000000000005ea RSI: ffff9b38001772c0 RDI: 0000000000000017
[10278375.961120] RBP: ffff9b3d95f771c0 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 0000000000000007
[10278375.961135] R10: 0000000000003948 R11: ffffae37114dfcc4 R12: ffff9b38045bb048
[10278375.961150] R13: ffff9b3d95f76d60 R14: ffff9b3d95f77198 R15: 0000000000318e02
[10278375.961166] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9b46fde80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[10278375.961183] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[10278375.961196] CR2: 00007f452717e000 CR3: 00000002d9010003 CR4: 00000000007706e0
[10278375.961232] PKRU: 55555554
[10278375.961240] Call Trace:
[10278375.961274]  ? __die_body+0x1a/0x60
[10278375.961288]  ? die_addr+0x38/0x51
[10278375.961299]  ? do_general_protection+0x135/0x280
[10278375.961315]  ? general_protection+0x1e/0x30
[10278375.961330]  ? mem_cgroup_from_obj.part.74+0xaf/0xf0
[10278375.961696]  list_lru_del+0x6c/0x100
[10278375.961915]  d_lru_del+0x4d/0x70
[10278375.962096]  select_collect+0xd1/0xe0
[10278375.962275]  d_walk+0xe7/0x290
[10278375.962449]  ? d_lru_del+0x70/0x70
[10278375.962622]  shrink_dcache_parent+0x50/0xa0
[10278375.962793]  d_invalidate+0x58/0xe0
[10278375.962961]  proc_flush_task+0xaa/0x1b0
[10278375.963129]  release_task.part.23+0x4a/0x4b0
[10278375.963297]  ? thread_group_cputime_adjusted+0x4a/0x70
[10278375.963464]  wait_consider_task+0x8d5/0x930
[10278375.963627]  do_wait+0x211/0x2f0
[10278375.963788]  kernel_wait+0x47/0x87
[10278375.963961]  ? task_stopped_code+0x50/0x50
[10278375.964130]  call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0x59/0x90
[10278375.964290]  process_one_work+0x1d3/0x390
[10278375.964454]  worker_thread+0x30/0x390
[10278375.964626]  ? process_one_work+0x390/0x390
[10278375.964787]  kthread+0x134/0x150
[10278375.964936]  ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
[10278375.965084]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10.z - kernel-4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10.x86_64
  • Several McAfee security modules installed and loaded.
    • mfe_aac_1007183097
    • scdrv
    • mfe_fileaccess_1007183097

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