Re: Recent current panic

From: Guido Falsi <mad_at_madpilot.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:11:00 UTC
On 7/7/26 21:54, Kyle Evans wrote:
> 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?
> 

Sounds like a reasonable guess.

This is a Ryzen 5 5600G on a Gigabyte mother board. Nothing fancy 
though. It's from 3 years ago if I remember correctly. The case itself 
is much older.


-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>