7.2 Stable Crash - possibly related to if_re
Norbert Papke
npapke at acm.org
Sat Oct 31 01:23:52 UTC 2009
On October 30, 2009, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:56:19PM -0700, Norbert Papke wrote:
> > This occurred shortly after "scp"ing from a VirtualBox VM to the host.
> > The file transfer got stuck. The "re" interface stopped working.
> > Shortly afterwards, the host crashed. The "re" interface was used by the
> > host, the guest was using a different NIC in bridged mode.
> >
> >
> > FreeBSD proven.lan 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #5 r198666: Thu Oct 29
> > 18:36:57 PDT 2009
> >
> > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> > cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
> > fault virtual address = 0x18
>
> It looks like a NULL pointer dereference, possibly mbuf related
> one.
>
> > fault code = supervisor write data, page not present
> > instruction pointer = 0x8:0xffffffff80d476ee
> > stack pointer = 0x10:0xffffff8000078ae0
> > frame pointer = 0x10:0xffffff8000078b40
> > code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
> > = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1
> > processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> > current process = 18 (swi5: +)
> > Physical memory: 8177 MB
> >
> >
> > #9 0xffffffff807e710e in calltrap ()
> > at /usr/public/freebsd/sources/stable/sys/amd64/amd64/exception.S:218
> > #10 0xffffffff80d476ee in re_rxeof () from /boot/kernel/if_re.ko
>
> Hmm, I think there is a missing information here. Not sure where it
> dereferenced a NULL pointer in re_rxeof().
>> #11 0xffffffff80d4a481 in re_int_task (arg=Variable "arg" is not available.
>> )
>>
at /usr/public/freebsd/sources/stable/sys/modules/re/../../dev/re/if_re.c:2191
I am not sure how much I trust frame 10. The instruction
at "0xffffffff80d476ee" is the one after the "retq" from re_rxeof(). Frame
11 seems OK to me. The "struct rl_softc*", in particular, looks plausible
but I don't know enough to say for sure.
> Because that this is the
> first report for NULL pointer dereference in Rx handler I need more
> information how to reproduce it with minimal configuration. Can you
> also reproduce the issues without virtual box?
I am trying but no luck so far.
> By chance, did you stop the re0 interface with ifconfig when you
> noticed the file transfer got stuck?
It is possible. I had it happen twice. The first time I definitely tried
to "down" re. I cannot recall what I did the second time. The crash dump is
from the second time.
Thanks very much for the response. I'll try to come up with a better test
case. If I succeed, I will report back.
Cheers,
-- Norbert Papke.
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