XFS crashing system with general protection fault

[Dave Chinner]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:14:03AM +0100, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On a server I've got the following traces, the first on Monday, the second
> one today. On Monday kernel was 3.14.17 and 3.14.27 for today (both captured
> via netconsole).
> 
> Is that fixed in a newer kernel?
> 
> I've xfs_repaired one of the two XFS partitions on the server though it
> found nothing to complain about. The other partition, containing /, has
> not been explicitly checked yet.
> 
> If there is some information I should gather before xfs_repairing, please
> tell as soon as possible!
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Bruno
> 
> [6149136.014757] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP 
> [6149136.022825] Modules linked in: netconsole configfs
> [6149136.028996] CPU: 4 PID: 151 Comm: kworker/4:1H Not tainted 3.14.18-x86_64 #1
> [6149136.040750] Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL360 G6, BIOS P64 07/02/2013
> [6149136.048936] Workqueue: xfslogd xfs_buf_iodone_work
> [6149136.056836] task: ffff880212c67500 ti: ffff8800def3c000 task.ti: ffff8800def3c000
> [6149136.067023] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81255b67>]  [<ffffffff81255b67>] xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk+0x87/0x1a0
> [6149136.080940] RSP: 0018:ffff8800def3dce8  EFLAGS: 00010202
> [6149136.088889] RAX: dead000000100100 RBX: ffff88000211bd10 RCX: ffff88010e23fbb1
> [6149136.098962] RDX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RSI: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RDI: ffff88000211bd10
> [6149136.110787] RBP: ffff8800def3dd38 R08: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b R09: 2900000000000000

You have memory poisoning turned on?

#define POISON_FREE      0x6b    /* for use-after-free poisoning */

Did this occur at unmount? Can you reproduce it on a 3.18 kernel?

Cheers,

Dave.

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Dave Chinner
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