linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-mm2 boot failure on x86-64

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Message-Id: <1160071032.29690.19.camel@flooterbu>
Date:	Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:57:12 -0500
From:	Steve Fox <drfickle@...ibm.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...igh.org>, vgoyal@...ibm.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kmannth@...ibm.com, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2 boot failure on x86-64

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 17:40 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Please don't snip the Code: line. It is fairly important.

Sorry about that. The remote console I was using appears to overwrite
some text after I force the reboot. Here's a clean one.

global ffffffffffffffff
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000827 RIP:
 [<ffffffff80470766>] xfrm_register_mode+0x36/0x60
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 0
Modules linked in:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.18-git22 #3
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80470766>]  [<ffffffff80470766>] xfrm_register_mode+0x36/0x60
RSP: 0000:ffff810bffcbded0  EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 000000000000081f RBX: ffffffff805588a0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffffffffffffffff RSI: 0000000000000046 RDI: ffffffff80559550
RBP: 00000000ffffffef R08: 0000000000007a02 R09: 000000000000000e
R10: 0000000000000006 R11: ffffffff80334660 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff810bffcbdef0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff805d2000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000827 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff810bffcbc000, task ffff810bffcbb4e0)
Stack:  0000000000000000 ffffffff8061fb48 0000000000000000 ffffffff80207182
 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000090000
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff80207182>] init+0x162/0x330
 [<ffffffff8020a9a8>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
 [<ffffffff803394c2>] acpi_ds_init_one_object+0x0/0x82
 [<ffffffff80207020>] init+0x0/0x330
 [<ffffffff8020a99e>] child_rip+0x0/0x12


Code: 48 83 78 08 00 75 06 48 89 58 08 31 ed 48 89 d7 e8 65 fd ff
RIP  [<ffffffff80470766>] xfrm_register_mode+0x36/0x60
 RSP <ffff810bffcbded0>
CR2: 0000000000000827
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!

> My guess is that something is wrong with the global variable it is accessing.
> Can you post the output of grep -5 xfrm_policy_afinfo ? 

elm3b239:/boot # grep -5 xfrm_policy_afinfo System.map-2.6.18-git22
ffffffff805594c0 d xfrm4_state_afinfo
ffffffff80559500 D xfrm_cfg_mutex
ffffffff80559530 d xfrm_dev_notifier
ffffffff80559548 d xfrm_policy_lock
ffffffff8055954c d xfrm_policy_gc_lock
ffffffff80559550 d xfrm_policy_afinfo_lock
ffffffff80559560 d xfrm_hash_work
ffffffff805595c0 d hash_resize_mutex
ffffffff80559600 D sysctl_xfrm_aevent_etime
ffffffff80559604 D sysctl_xfrm_aevent_rseqth
ffffffff80559610 D km_waitq
--
ffffffff8075bfd8 b idiagnl
ffffffff8075bfe0 B xfrm_policy_count
ffffffff8075bff8 b xfrm_policy_gc_list
ffffffff8075c000 b dummy.28400
ffffffff8075c038 b idx_generator.27450
ffffffff8075c040 b xfrm_policy_afinfo
ffffffff8075c140 b xfrm_policy_gc_work
ffffffff8075c1a0 b xfrm_policy_inexact
ffffffff8075c1e0 B xfrm_nl
ffffffff8075c1e8 b xfrm_state_gc_list
ffffffff8075c1f0 b acqseq.27386

> And please add a 
> printk("global %p\n",  xfrm_policy_afinfo[family]);
> at the beginning of net/xfrm/xfrm_poliy.c:xfrm_policy_lock_afinfo
> and post the output.

Included above.

-- 

Steve Fox
IBM Linux Technology Center
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