[DRBD-user] CentOS 7.3 3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64 w. DRBD v8.4.9-2: PANIC: ".1BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000014"

Adi Pircalabu adi at ddns.com.au
Wed Apr 26 06:03:00 CEST 2017

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On 19/4/17 9:02 am, Adi Pircalabu wrote:
> On 18-04-2017 23:32, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:52:57AM +1000, Adi Pircalabu wrote:
>>> Hi, initially submitted here:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1442593
>>> The node that crashed was at the time the active member of an 
>>> active/passive
>>> Pacemaker cluster, using DRBD backed replicated storage for iSCSI and 
>>> NFS
>>> resources.
>>> The RedHat developer closed the bug due to loading drbd out-of-tree. 
>>> The
>>> module is built using the source from 
>>> http://git.drbd.org/drbd-8.4.git/
>>> Even though it may or may not be related to DRBD, I thought it's 
>>> worth
>>> having your opinion on this.
>> 
>> I don't see how the presence of DRBD would make
>> the apic_timer_interrupt deref some bad pointer,
>> while the cpu is "idle",
>> with such "boring" backtrace,
>> and for you only.
>> 
>> But yes, I know, just having DRBD around
>> makes it responsible for everything.
> 
> You said that, I didn't :)
> 
>> I mean, sure, in theory, it was possible, somehow...
>> but I see no indication of that in the data provided.
> 
> Thanks for looking into it. I wasn't convinced it's drbd causing that 
> panic, since I've been running 8.4.6, 8.4.7 and 8.4.8 for years with no 
> issues. I'm now running the latest RHEL 7 kernel and I got rid of all 
> Dell Openmanage software, including the dell_rbu module. See what 
> happens.

Just fyi, crashed again yesterday morning 7:06am, similar backtrace. 
crash output for bt, ps, task & vm attached. I've since downgraded the 
drbd module version from 8.4.9-2 to 8.4.9-1, waiting for the crash to 
replicate again. And, as expected, the folks @RedHat closed the bug 
after reopening it as notabug, blaming drbd.

Cheers,

-- 
Adi Pircalabu
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