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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.1.3 / Kernel 2.6.18.8 "NULL pointer	dereference" P
 
Hi,
 
 On Feb 14, 2008 7:52 PM, Joshua West < jwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
Hey y'all,
  Has anybody ever seen or have any information on a kernel panic such as the paste below?  It occurred in a VM when a user was removing a large number of files.  There was no mention of anything in dom0's logs or in 
"xm dmesg".
  
  I have seen a crash like this under similar circumstances. I don't think I was able to track down the problem though.
  I am currently working with 3.2 from source and haven't yet run across the problem. From the strace it looks like an ext3 driver problem maybe. 
 Todd
   
  This machine is a Dell PowerEdge 1950 running Xen 3.1.3 64-bit with 
32-bit dom0 and domU (PAE) kernels.
  Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel:  printing eip: Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: c01726bb 
Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: 15253000 -> *pde = 00000003:9b471027 Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: 1dbeb000 -> *pme = 00000000:00000000 Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1] Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: SMP 
Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: Modules linked in: Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: CPU:    0 Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: EIP:    0061:[<c01726bb>]    Not tainted VLI Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: EFLAGS: 00010082   (2.6.18.8-32bit-4-xenU #1) 
Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: EIP is at free_block+0x8b/0x120 Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: eax: 00001000   ebx: c0866180   ecx: c5e5a000   edx: 00000000 Feb 13 14:35:25 build kernel: esi: c5e5ac0c   edi: c1712f40   ebp: 
c09c0400   esp: d3215ee4 Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0069 Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel: Process rm (pid: 11371, ti=d3214000 task=c1767a90 task.ti=d3214000) Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel: Stack: 00000680 0000001b 0000000b c09c03d4 
0000001b c1712f40 0000001b c017227a Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel:        00000000 dc3ea3ec ca3584c4 c09c03c0 c0866180 c09c03c0 c1712f40 00000000 Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel:        ca35842c c0172566 00000003 00000000 
cf256000 d6f98d94 ca3584c4 c0201ced Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel: Call Trace: Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel:  [<c017227a>] cache_flusharray+0x5a/0xd0 Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel:  [<c0172566>] kmem_cache_free+0x106/0x130 
Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel:  [<c0201ced>] ext3_destroy_inode+0x1d/0x30 Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel:  [<c0189d15>] do_unlinkat+0xf5/0x160 Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel:  [<c0107f62>] do_syscall_trace+0x222/0x235 
Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel:  [<c01053a3>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel: Code: 03 15 10 59 7f c0 8b 02 f6 c4 40 0f 85 8b 00 00 00 8b 02 84 c0 0f 89 8a 00 00 00 8b 4a 1c 8b 44 24 20 8b 11 
8b 5c 87 30 8b 41 0 4 <89> 42 04 89 10 31 d2 2b 71 0c c7 01 00 01 10 00 c7 41 04 00 02 Feb 13 14:35:26 build kernel: EIP: [<c01726bb>] free_block+0x8b/0x120 SS:ESP 0069:d3215ee4
  Thanks.
  
-- Joshua West Systems Engineer Brandeis University http://www.brandeis.edu
 
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