Kernel panic when using pmap_extract_and_hold() to check physical-to-virtual address mapping
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:51:02 UTC
Hello, We want to see if a specific physical address is mapped into the virtual address space of a user space process. We are trying to do this from the kernel, but we are running into issues with trying to use pmap_extract, specifically we get the following kernel panic: panic: mtx_lock() of spin mutex (invalid) The pmap pointer comes from: 1. pfind(target_pid) - gets the process structure 2. p->p_vmspace - gets the vmspace from the process 3. vmspace_pmap(p->p_vmspace) - extracts the pmap from vmspace Then I'm iterating through vm_map entries with VM_MAP_ENTRY_FOREACH() and calling pmap_extract_and_hold(pmap, va, VM_PROT_READ) for each virtual address. The crash happens when calling pmap_extract_and_hold(). I suspect it's trying to acquire pmap locks that conflict with something. I'm trying to find which virtual address maps to a given physical address in a user space process. I'm doing this from a kernel module via sysctl handler. Best, Friedy