ALPHA4 panic in VM

Mark Johnston markj at freebsd.org
Wed Sep 19 21:02:17 UTC 2018


On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 01:01:52PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> I have the kernel and core file if more information is needed.
> 
> % cat info.2
> Dump header from device: /dev/ada0p3
   Architecture: amd64
>   Architecture Version: 2
>   Dump Length: 2348281856
>   Blocksize: 512
>   Compression: none
>   Dumptime: Wed Sep 19 12:29:59 2018
>   Hostname: troutmask.apl.washington.edu
>   Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump
>   Version String: FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA4 #0 r338505: Thu Sep  6 13:45:34 PDT 2018
>     kargl at troutmask.apl.washington.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/SPEW
>   Panic String: page fault
>   Dump Parity: 2676008548
>   Bounds: 2
>   Dump Status: good
> 
> % more core.txt.2
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> cpuid = 1; apic id = 11
> fault virtual address   = 0xffffb8000719a428

This seems to be the result of a bit-flip.  cred is 0xffffb8000719a400,
which is almost but not quite in the direct map.  In particular we have:

(kgdb) frame 10                                                                                                                 
#10 0xffffffff8083e07d in vm_object_destroy (object=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_object.c:703            
703                     swap_release_by_cred(object->charge, object->cred);                     
(kgdb) p object            
$8 = <optimized out>                                                                                                    
(kgdb) p *(vm_object_t)$r13                                                                            
$9 = {
...
  cred = 0xffffb8000719a400,
  charge = 28672,
  umtx_data = 0x0
}
(kgdb) p *(struct ucred *)0xfffff8000719a400
$10 = {
  cr_ref = 5737, 
  cr_uid = 1001, 
  cr_ruid = 1001, 
  cr_svuid = 1001, 
  cr_ngroups = 7, 
  cr_rgid = 1001, 
  cr_svgid = 1001, 
  cr_uidinfo = 0xfffff80007285500, 
  cr_ruidinfo = 0xfffff80007285500, 
  cr_prison = 0xffffffff80a9de10 <prison0>, 
... <more sane-looking ucred fields>

That is, flipping one of the bits in the fault address leads me to a
valid ucred.  This could in principle be the result of a software bug,
but I'd be more inclined to suspect the hardware.


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