Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:56:27 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: v2.6.26-rc7: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference |
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On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 04:54:01PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Initializing CPU#1 > >> APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) > >> Stuck ?? > >> Inquiring remote APIC #1... > >> ... APIC #1 ID: failed > >> ... APIC #1 VERSION: failed > >> ... APIC #1 SPIV: failed > > > > Arch-specific __cpu_up() failed... > > > >> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000024 > >> IP: [<c01e0f06>] sysfs_remove_group+0x16/0xc0 > >> *pde = 00000000 > >> Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC > >> > >> Pid: 3994, comm: bash Not tainted (2.6.26-rc7-00002-g8b2e474-dirty #29) > >> EIP: 0060:[<c01e0f06>] EFLAGS: 00010282 CPU: 0 > >> EIP is at sysfs_remove_group+0x16/0xc0 > >> EAX: 00000008 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00000004 EDX: c0694c14 > >> ESI: 00000004 EDI: c07015fc EBP: f3cbfe9c ESP: f3cbfe80 > >> DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 > >> Process bash (pid: 3994, ti=f3cbe000 task=f3cb4f60 task.ti=f3cbe000) > >> Stack: c0302262 f4bcda40 f3cbfe98 00000008 00000001 00000004 00000000 f3cbfea8 > >> c05880b2 c07576c4 f3cbfec8 c014f567 00000001 00000004 c0753c90 0000001f > >> 00000001 fffffffb f3cbfedc c014f5d9 0000001f 00000000 00000004 f3cbff00 > >> Call Trace: > >> [<c0302262>] ? device_unregister+0x12/0x20 > > > > This is line 131 of fs/sysfs/group.c: > > > > struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd = kobj->sd; > > > >> [<c05880b2>] ? topology_cpu_callback+0x32/0x70 > >> [<c014f567>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x37/0x70 > >> [<c014f5d9>] ? __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x19/0x20 > >> [<c0586f6e>] ? _cpu_up+0xee/0x100 > > > > This is line 314 of _cpu_up(): > > > > out_notify: > > if (ret != 0) > > __raw_notifier_call_chain(&cpu_chain, > > CPU_UP_CANCELED | mod, hcpu, nr_calls, NULL); > > > >> [<c0586fc9>] ? cpu_up+0x49/0x70 > >> [<c05678d8>] ? store_online+0x58/0x80 > >> [<c0567880>] ? store_online+0x0/0x80 > >> [<c0302a6b>] ? sysdev_store+0x2b/0x40 > >> [<c01df0f2>] ? sysfs_write_file+0xa2/0x100 > >> [<c01a0d06>] ? vfs_write+0x96/0x130 > >> [<c01df050>] ? sysfs_write_file+0x0/0x100 > >> [<c01a13cd>] ? sys_write+0x3d/0x70 > >> [<c010831b>] ? sysenter_past_esp+0x78/0xd1 > >> ======================= > >> Code: 8b 43 04 83 c3 04 85 c0 75 ed 5b 5e 5d c3 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 83 ec 1c 89 7d fc 89 d7 89 5d f4 89 75 f8 89 45 f0 8b 12 <8b> 70 1c 85 d2 74 53 89 f0 e8 bc f5 ff ff 85 c0 89 c3 74 59 8b > >> EIP: [<c01e0f06>] sysfs_remove_group+0x16/0xc0 SS:ESP 0068:f3cbfe80 > >> > >> > > > > ...adding a few related Ccs. > > Sorry, forgot one. This is probably the root cause of the crash: > > commit e37d05dad7ff9744efd8ea95a70d389e9a65a6fc > Author: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> > Date: Thu May 1 04:35:16 2008 -0700 > > cpu: change cpu_sys_devices from array to per_cpu variable > > Change cpu_sys_devices from array to per_cpu variable in drivers/base/cpu.c. >...
Can you confirm whether this is definitely the cause or not?
E.g. if it is and 2.6.25 works fine it might qualify as a 2.6.26-rc regression.
> Vegard
cu Adrian
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