[Bug 1523606] Re: Incompatibility with 4.2 prints: crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff88105b1a0000 type: "fill_task_struct"

[Chris J Arges]

Hello Dave, or anyone else affected,

Accepted crash into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/crash/7.0.3-3ubuntu4.4
in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

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bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
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Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
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advance!

** Changed in: crash (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

** Changed in: crash (Ubuntu Vivid)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

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Title:
  Incompatibility with 4.2 prints:  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual
  address: ffff88105b1a0000  type: "fill_task_struct"

Status in crash package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in crash source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in crash source package in Vivid:
  Fix Committed
Status in crash source package in Wily:
  Fix Committed
Status in crash source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

    * Crash prints
  "crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff8808595a0000  type: "fill_task_struct" "
        on dumps for 4.2 and newer levels of the kernel.
    * This is related to variable task_struct_size being variable on 4.2 and newer kernels.

  [Test Case]

  An example of the issue.
  $ crash ddeb/usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-4.2.0-18-generic 00092116-dump.201511300126

  crash 7.0.3
  Copyright (C) 2002-2013  Red Hat, Inc.
  Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010  IBM Corporation
  Copyright (C) 1999-2006  Hewlett-Packard Co
  Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012  Fujitsu Limited
  Copyright (C) 2006, 2007  VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.
  Copyright (C) 2005, 2011  NEC Corporation
  Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007  Silicon Graphics, Inc.
  Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002  Mission Critical Linux, Inc.
  This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,
  and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under
  certain conditions.  Enter "help copying" to see the conditions.
  This program has absolutely no warranty.  Enter "help warranty" for details.

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  Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
  This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
  and "show warranty" for details.
  This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"...

  please wait... (gathering task table data)
  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff88105b1a0000  type: "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff881052fa8000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff880111770000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff880836578000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff880859e68000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff88085b858000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff88084c448000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff88105b530000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff8808595a0000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff8801065a0000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff8808488d0000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff880859dd0000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff880855750000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff881058cd0000  type:
  "fill_task_struct"

  crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff880bb5150000  type: "fill_task_struct"
        KERNEL: ddeb/usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-4.2.0-18-generic
      DUMPFILE: 00092116-dump.201511300126  [PARTIAL DUMP]
          CPUS: 24
          DATE: Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
        UPTIME: 3 days, 13:28:22
  LOAD AVERAGE: 528.67, 526.12, 465.03
         TASKS: 1208
      NODENAME: <redacted>
       RELEASE: 4.2.0-18-generic
       VERSION: #22~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 22:20:11 UTC 2015
       MACHINE: x86_64  (2397 Mhz)
        MEMORY: 63.9 GB
         PANIC: "Kernel panic - not syncing: NMI IOCK error: Not continuing"
           PID: 0
       COMMAND: "swapper/0"
          TASK: ffffffff81c14500  (1 of 24)  [THREAD_INFO: ffffffff81c00000]
           CPU: 0
         STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC)

  [Regression Potential]
   * Change is available in upstream crash
   * This has been tested with both 3.13 and 4.2 crash dumps.

  [Other Info]

   * https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/commit/80b49a879e0ba8ce7c365a2fd88693128a79310f
  is the fix for this issue.

  * Related conversation on mailing list.
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2015-November/msg00022.html

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