linux-kernel - Re: [NFS] 2.6.18-rc5 page_to_pfn: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

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Message-Id: <1158350827.5501.4.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
Date:	Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:07:07 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Andre Noll <maan@...temlinux.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [NFS] 2.6.18-rc5 page_to_pfn: Unable to handle kernel NULL
	pointer dereference

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 14:40 +0200, Andre Noll wrote:
> On 09:31, Andre Noll wrote:
> > The following just happend to one of our 8-way Opteron cluster nodes
> > (nfs client version 3, solaris nfs server).
> 
> The problem is still present in 2.6.18-rc7. This time it happend on a
> 2-processor Opteron machine:
> 
> Pid: 945, comm: sge_execd Not tainted 2.6.18-rc7-tt64-6-g1883c5ab #4
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80150cad>]  [<ffffffff80150cad>] page_to_pfn+0x0/0x33
> RSP: 0018:ffff8100fac73bb0  EFLAGS: 00010283
> RAX: 0000000000000a57 RBX: 00000000000004ae RCX: 0000000000000a57
> RDX: ffff8100fac73bf0 RSI: ffff8101b9b1c540 RDI: 0000000000000000
> RBP: 00000000000005a9 R08: ffff8101f7aa31d0 R09: ffff8101f7aa3040
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000b52
> R13: ffff8100fac73bf8 R14: 0000000000002000 R15: ffff8101f7aa32e8
> FS:  00002b83ded037a0(0000) GS:ffff8101000dc540(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000fad78000 CR4: 00000000000006a0
> Process sge_execd (pid: 945, threadinfo ffff8100fac72000, task ffff810004be5180)
> Stack:  ffffffff801d6276 ffff8101fc4f0440 ffff8101b9b1c3c0 0000000000000a57
>  ffff8101f7aa31d0 00000000000005a9 ffffffff801d64fc 0000000000000001
>  ffff8101ffec2e18 0000000000000000 ffff8101f7aa31d0 ffff8101ffec2e18
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff801d6276>] nfs_readpage_truncate_uninitialised_page+0x76/0xeb
>  [<ffffffff801d64fc>] nfs_readpage_sync+0x211/0x253
>  [<ffffffff801d6f89>] nfs_readpage+0x118/0x151
>  [<ffffffff8014c6fe>] do_generic_mapping_read+0x1ec/0x398
>  [<ffffffff8014c8aa>] file_read_actor+0x0/0xd1
>  [<ffffffff8014caf2>] __generic_file_aio_read+0x177/0x1b0
>  [<ffffffff8014cb5f>] generic_file_aio_read+0x34/0x39
>  [<ffffffff801cf3eb>] nfs_file_read+0x84/0x93
>  [<ffffffff8016e0fc>] do_sync_read+0xc9/0x106
>  [<ffffffff8013e5fd>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
>  [<ffffffff8015bf32>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x5fd/0x6de
>  [<ffffffff8016e1e6>] vfs_read+0xad/0x14c
>  [<ffffffff8016e520>] sys_read+0x45/0x6e
>  [<ffffffff80109726>] system_call+0x7e/0x83

Does the attached patch fix it?

Cheers,
  Trond

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