Opening files on a GFS2 filesystem with firefox causes a kernel panic to occur in RHEL 5
Issue
- A cluster node fenced unexpectedly when a file was accessed on a
GFS2filesystem withfirefox, and the following message was logged in/var/log/messages.
Feb 6 10:51:47 node42 kernel: original: gfs2_prepare_write+0xdc/0x446 [gfs2]
Feb 6 10:51:47 node42 kernel: pid : 22395
Feb 6 10:51:47 node42 kernel: lock type: 2 req lock state : 1
Feb 6 10:51:47 node42 kernel: new: gfs2_readpage+0x61/0x199 [gfs2]
Feb 6 10:51:47 node42 kernel: pid: 22395
Feb 6 10:51:47 node42 kernel: lock type: 2 req lock state : 3
Feb 6 10:51:47 node42 kernel: G: s:EX n:2/2eb6bbc f:yqO t:EX d:EX/0 l:0 a:0 r:5 m:200
Feb 6 10:51:47 node42 kernel: H: s:EX f:H e:0 p:22395 [firefox] gfs2_prepare_write+0xdc/0x446 [gfs2]
Feb 6 10:51:47 node42 kernel: I: n:4806159/48982972 t:8 f:0x10 d:0x00000000 s:0/0
Feb 6 10:51:47 node42 kernel: ----------- [cut here ] --------- [please bite here ] ---------
Feb 6 10:51:47 node42 kernel: Kernel BUG at fs/gfs2/glock.c:1077
Feb 6 10:51:47 node42 kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 with the Resilient Storage Add On
- A Global Filesystem 2 (
GFS2) file system
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