Ufs dead-locks on freebsd 6.2

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed May 16 17:19:37 UTC 2007


On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:16:27PM -0400, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> Here's the backtrace from the last crash along with the output from show
> alllocks when the system was deadlocked.  I have been running
> 6.2-release and compliled with makeoptions debug=-g, invariants,
> invariant_support and witness.  I will update to 6-STABLE add
> diagnositc, debug_locks and debug_vfs_locks as per the handbook
> recommendation and retry.
> 
> Yes, when the system was un-usable I was still able to ping it.  I have
> the serial console setup as the default console so I can remotely access
> the box and break into the debugger etc.
> 
> (kgdb) bt
> #0  doadump () at pcpu.h:165
> #1  0xc059b480 in boot (howto=260) at
> /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:409
> #2  0xc059b795 in panic (fmt=0xc0787b04 "Most recently used by %s\n")
>     at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:565

That's a memory use-after-free.  Check the DEBUG_MEMGUARD
infrastructure for debugging of this.

Kris


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