Re: Recent current panic

From: Kyle Evans <kevans_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:54:59 UTC
On 7/7/26 14:38, Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 7/7/26 20:38, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 12:17 PM Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org <mailto:asomers@freebsd.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 11:24 AM Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net
>>     <mailto:mad@madpilot.net>> wrote:
>>      >
>>      > Hi!
>>      >
>>      > I'm experiencing a fully reproducible panic on recent current.
>>     I'm not
>>      > sure what is triggering it, looks ZFS related but I could be
>>     wrong. It
>>      > started when I updated shortly after the latest ZFS import.
>>      >
>>      > I'm running 2de20c5c77cf8d5b2059054cff0e0c1fc124739d committed
>>     on  Fri
>>      > Jul 3 10:55:37 2026 -0800 (from the commit message timestamp).
>>      >
>>      > first just after booting I get this report on the console:
>>      >
>>      > EFI RT fault page fault
>>      >
>>      > EFI runtime trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>>      > cpuid = 5; apic id = 05
>>      > fault virtual address   = 0x0
>>      > fault code              = supervisor read data, page not present
>>      > instruction pointer     = 0x20:0xb8bc1c5f
>>      > stack pointer           = 0x28:0xfffffe0121ae6c20
>>      > frame pointer           = 0x28:0x1
>>      > processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
>>      > current thread          = 0/100045 (kernel/thread taskq)
>>      > rdi: fffffe0121ae6ce0 rsi: fffff80002523cd0 rdx: 0000000000000000
>>      > rcx: 00000000b8bc31b8  r8: 00000000b8bc3448  r9: 0000000000000006
>>      > rax: 00000000b9254e70 rbx: fffffe0121ae6d98 rbp: 0000000000000001
>>      > r10: 0000000000000000 r11: 0000000000000006 r12: fffff800014df658
>>      > r13: 0000000000000000 r14: fffffe0121ae6e08 r15: fffffe0121ae6da8
>>      >
>>      >
>>      > The system works fine after this, except if I start building a
>>     nanobsd
>>      > image with scripts that have worked fine till now. Then when it
>>     tries to
>>      > install packages in the image jail system panics hard:
>>      >
>>      > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>>      > cpuid = 1; apic id = 01
>>      > fault virtual address   = 0x180
>>      > fault code              = supervisor read data, page not present
>>      > instruction pointer     = 0x20:0xffffffff807a74e5
>>      > stack pointer           = 0x28:0xfffffe016f8ef9e0
>>      > frame pointer           = 0x28:0xfffffe016f8efd70
>>      > processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
>>      > current thread          = 15751/101480 (sh/sh)
>>      > rdi: fffffe016369e984 rsi: fffff80035ad3000 rdx: 0000000000000000
>>      > rcx: 0000000000000000  r8: 0000000000006873  r9: 00000000ffffff01
>>      > rax: 0000000000000000 rbx: fffffe016369e984 rbp: fffffe016f8efd70
>>      > r10: 0000000000000001 r11: 0000000000000001 r12: fffffe016369e5a0
>>      > r13: 0000000000000000 r14: 0000000000000000 r15: 0000000000000000
>>      > panic: page fault
>>      > cpuid = 1
>>      > time = 1783444123
>>      > KDB: stack backtrace:
>>      > db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x36/frame
>>      > 0xfffffe016f8ef720
>>      > vpanic() at vpanic+0x149/frame 0xfffffe016f8ef850
>>      > panic() at panic+0x43/frame 0xfffffe016f8ef8b0
>>      > trap_pfault() at trap_pfault+0x3a8/frame 0xfffffe016f8ef910
>>      > calltrap() at calltrap+0x8/frame 0xfffffe016f8ef910
>>      > --- trap 0xc, rip = 0xffffffff807a74e5, rsp = 0xfffffe016f8ef9e0,
>>     rbp =
>>      > 0xfffffe016f8efd70 ---
>>      > kern_execve() at kern_execve+0x17f5/frame 0xfffffe016f8efd70
>>      > sys_execve() at sys_execve+0xc2/frame 0xfffffe016f8efe00
>>      > amd64_syscall() at amd64_syscall+0x133/frame 0xfffffe016f8eff30
>>      > fast_syscall_common() at fast_syscall_common+0xf8/frame
>>     0xfffffe016f8eff30
>>      > --- syscall (59, FreeBSD ELF64, execve), rip = 0x605cefca, rsp =
>>      > 0x881310ee8, rbp = 0x881311360 ---
>>      > KDB: enter: panic
>>      >
>>      >
>>      > Anyone can help I can trigger this easily. If someone could give
>>     me some
>>      > steps to perform in the debugger to extract more information I
>>     can do that.
>>      >
>>      >
>>      > Thanks in advance.
>>      >
>>      > --
>>      > Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net <mailto:mad@madpilot.net>>
>>
>>     That "EFI RT page fault" message looks very concerning. How confident
>>     are you in your system's RAM?  Have you tried something like
>>     memtest86+ ?
>>
>>
>> It could also be from the runtime services from EFI that we're calling back into
>> as well... Best to check into both.
>>
>> Warner
> 
> I'll be running a memtest soon, just to be on the safe side, but I've not seen any other instability int he machine.
> 
> How could I investigate the other option?
> 
> This is coming up a few seconds after the login: prompt.
> 

My guess would be that this is from ntpd trying to set the RTC?  What kind of machine/firmware is this?

Thanks,

Kyle Evans