[Bug 328186] [NEW] kernel: bad page state in process X

[Carthik Sharma]

Public bug reported:

In what appears to be a kernel bug, I get reports in dmesg saying
"Unable to handle kernel paging request" and "Bad page state". The error
messages indicate I have to reboot. On a system with multiple users
connected through VNC this is a major annoyance.

If there is any other information I can provide regarding this bug,
please let me know.

In advance - it is not possible to upgrade this system to Intrepid - as
for this production machine, we need to stay on Hardy for the near
future.

Thank you!

[764323.826993] Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001790 RIP: 
[764323.826999]  [<ffffffff80284786>] page_waitqueue+0x66/0x80
[764323.827007] PGD 17c605067 PUD 1d37f9067 PMD 0 
[764323.827011] Oops: 0000 [13] SMP 
[764323.827014] CPU 0 
[764323.827016] Modules linked in: binfmt_misc rfcomm l2cap bluetooth nfsd auth_rpcgss exportfs ppdev cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_stats cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_conservative freq_table container video output dock sbs sbshc battery iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables ipv6 nfs lockd nfs_acl ac sunrpc lp snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_hwdep snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device nvidia(P) snd serio_raw i82975x_edac i2c_core edac_core psmouse iTCO_wdt sky2 evdev iTCO_vendor_support shpchp pci_hotplug pcspkr button parport_pc parport soundcore ext3 jbd mbcache sr_mod cdrom ata_generic ata_piix sg sd_mod pata_marvell floppy ehci_hcd ohci1394 ieee1394 pata_acpi skge ahci libata scsi_mod uhci_hcd usbcore dm_mirror dm_snapshot dm_mod thermal processor fan fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor fuse
[764323.827085] Pid: 31776, comm: gconfd-2 Tainted: P      D 2.6.24-23-generic #1
[764323.827088] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80284786>]  [<ffffffff80284786>] page_waitqueue+0x66/0x80
[764323.827093] RSP: 0018:ffff8101a89458b8  EFLAGS: 00010206
[764323.827095] RAX: 0c368eb4c5b35db8 RBX: fbf68eb4c5b35db8 RCX: 0000000000000040
[764323.827098] RDX: 0000000000001200 RSI: 6e00000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[764323.827100] RBP: ffff8101a8945b18 R08: 7000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[764323.827102] R10: 000000000000003f R11: 00000000000d9cc3 R12: 0000000000000000
[764323.827105] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff810225da44d8 R15: 000000000000000e
[764323.827108] FS:  00007f4997cff6e0(0000) GS:ffffffff805b9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[764323.827111] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[764323.827113] CR2: 0000000000001790 CR3: 0000000076e96000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[764323.827115] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[764323.827118] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[764323.827121] Process gconfd-2 (pid: 31776, threadinfo ffff8101a8944000, task ffff8101615d8fe0)
[764323.827123] Stack:  ffff81023c935db8 ffffffff80285318 ffff81023c935db8 ffffffff8028ca7c
[764323.827128]  ffff810225da44d8 ffffffff8028c530 ffff81022a7f0e38 0000000000000000
[764323.827133]  ffffffffffffffff 0000000001037f80 000000000000000e 0000000000000000
[764323.827137] Call Trace:
[764323.827142]  [<ffffffff80285318>] unlock_page+0x18/0x30
[764323.827146]  [<ffffffff8028ca7c>] write_cache_pages+0x16c/0x340
[764323.827150]  [<ffffffff8028c530>] __writepage+0x0/0x30
[764323.827176]  [<ffffffff8028ccab>] do_writepages+0x2b/0x40
[764323.827179]  [<ffffffff802d38e4>] __writeback_single_inode+0x284/0x380
[764323.827195]  [<ffffffff8034c20a>] prop_norm_single+0x5a/0xd0
[764323.827201]  [<ffffffff802d3df9>] sync_sb_inodes+0x1f9/0x300
[764323.827207]  [<ffffffff802d42e7>] writeback_inodes+0x97/0xd0
[764323.827211]  [<ffffffff8028d2dc>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0x25c/0x360
[764323.827224]  [<ffffffff802867fb>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x1fb/0x6b0
[764323.827239]  [<ffffffff80286eff>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x24f/0x400
[764323.827250]  [<ffffffff80287114>] generic_file_aio_write+0x64/0xd0
[764323.827261]  [<ffffffff881a4653>] :ext3:ext3_file_write+0x23/0xc0
[764323.827266]  [<ffffffff802b2ce9>] do_sync_write+0xd9/0x120
[764323.827269]  [<ffffffff80299f86>] __vma_link+0x26/0x50
[764323.827275]  [<ffffffff8034dc01>] __up_read+0x21/0xb0
[764323.827278]  [<ffffffff80253cd0>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[764323.827291]  [<ffffffff802b362d>] vfs_write+0xed/0x190
[764323.827295]  [<ffffffff802b3d33>] sys_write+0x53/0x90
[764323.827301]  [<ffffffff8020c39e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83
[764323.827308] 
[764323.827309] 
[764323.827309] Code: 2b 8a 90 05 00 00 5b 48 d3 e8 48 8d 04 40 48 c1 e0 03 48 03 
[764323.827317] RIP  [<ffffffff80284786>] page_waitqueue+0x66/0x80
[764323.827320]  RSP <ffff8101a89458b8>
[764323.827321] CR2: 0000000000001790
[764323.827324] ---[ end trace 35e0265c776cf415 ]---
[781049.912556] Bad page state in process 'idl'
[781049.912558] page:ffff81023c935dc0 flags:0x0200000000000009 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:0 count:0
[781049.912559] Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
[781049.912560] Backtrace:
[781049.912569] Pid: 2706, comm: idl Tainted: P      D 2.6.24-23-generic #1
[781049.912571] 
[781049.912572] Call Trace:
[781049.912603]  [<ffffffff80289c40>] bad_page+0x60/0xa0
[781049.912607]  [<ffffffff8028a59c>] free_hot_cold_page+0x18c/0x1a0
[781049.912611]  [<ffffffff8028a5d4>] __pagevec_free+0x24/0x30
[781049.912616]  [<ffffffff8028e6eb>] release_pages+0x8b/0x1c0
[781049.912629]  [<ffffffff802a03ed>] free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x8d/0xb0
[781049.912635]  [<ffffffff802958c7>] unmap_vmas+0x557/0x7d0
[781049.912651]  [<ffffffff80299a08>] exit_mmap+0x78/0x100
[781049.912656]  [<ffffffff8023b0d6>] mmput+0x26/0xb0
[781049.912659]  [<ffffffff80241390>] do_exit+0x1c0/0x950
[781049.912661]  [<ffffffff8028bcaf>] __alloc_pages+0x12f/0x3f0
[781049.912665]  [<ffffffff802494dd>] __dequeue_signal+0x2d/0x1e0
[781049.912671]  [<ffffffff80241b4c>] do_group_exit+0x2c/0x80
[781049.912675]  [<ffffffff8024b417>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x2f7/0x4b0
[781049.912681]  [<ffffffff8020b714>] do_notify_resume+0xc4/0x810
[781049.912686]  [<ffffffff80468f18>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x8/0x10
[781049.912690]  [<ffffffff8046adb0>] do_page_fault+0x1d0/0x840
[781049.912692]  [<ffffffff8020a88a>] __switch_to+0x1ba/0x310
[781049.912699]  [<ffffffff80466f3f>] thread_return+0x3a/0x57b
[781049.912706]  [<ffffffff8026042b>] sys_futex+0xab/0x140
[781049.912711]  [<ffffffff8020c427>] sysret_signal+0x1c/0x27
[781049.912714]  [<ffffffff8020c6b7>] ptregscall_common+0x67/0xb0

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 11 13:19:07 2009
Dependencies:
 
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux.list]
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=.:/home/username/bin:/home/ast5937/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: linux-meta
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic x86_64

** Affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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