khugepaged+0x5a6/0x1800 - BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)

Borislav Petkov
2016-01-22T18:15:23Z

Hi guys,

I'm getting this null ptr deref below ontop of latest Linus, i.e.
top-commit is:

2b4015e9fb33 ("Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.5-1' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86")

The good thing is, it is reproducible even in kvm, 32-bit guest.

Thoughts?

[ 6.058923] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
[ 6.059496] IP: [<c119eea6>] khugepaged+0x5a6/0x1800
[ 6.059496] *pde = 00000000
[ 6.059496] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 6.059496] Modules linked in:
[ 6.059496] CPU: 2 PID: 33 Comm: khugepaged Not tainted 4.4.0+ #2
[ 6.059496] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140531_083030-gandalf 04/01/2014
[ 6.059496] task: f5222e80 ti: f522a000 task.ti: f522a000
[ 6.059496] EIP: 0060:[<c119eea6>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 2
[ 6.059496] EIP is at khugepaged+0x5a6/0x1800
[ 6.059496] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000003 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
[ 6.059496] ESI: f40412c0 EDI: f451cf00 EBP: f522bf30 ESP: f522be88
[ 6.059496] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
[ 6.059496] CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00000000 CR3: 3410f000 CR4: 000406d0
[ 6.059496] Stack:
[ 6.059496] 00000000 f57c1780 f511be00 f522be9c f57c1780 f522bea8 c1697c52 f57c1780
[ 6.059496] f522bee0 f451cf34 f5222e80 00000001 f61e5000 c107d930 f40412c0 f451cf54
[ 6.059496] 00000000 00002000 f5222e80 f5222e80 00000000 00000000 b6400000 00002000
[ 6.059496] Call Trace:
[ 6.059496] [<c1697c52>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x32/0x50
[ 6.059496] [<c107d930>] ? finish_task_switch+0x60/0x260
[ 6.059496] [<c109b120>] ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
[ 6.059496] [<c119e900>] ? unfreeze_page+0x430/0x430
[ 6.059496] [<c1076383>] kthread+0xb3/0xd0
[ 6.059496] [<c16984c9>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x21/0x38
[ 6.059496] [<c10762d0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180
[ 6.059496] Code: 75 0b 8b 41 14 a8 01 0f 84 60 01 00 00 89 4d c4 89 4d a8 c7 45 c8 0d 00 00 00 89 f8 e8 84 8c 4f 00 c7 45 ac 00 00 00 00 8b 45 c4 <8b> 00 c1 e8 1a 8b 04 c5 c0 3f 44 c2 89 45 98 3e 8d 74 26 00 64
[ 6.059496] EIP: [<c119eea6>] khugepaged+0x5a6/0x1800 SS:ESP 0068:f522be88
[ 6.059496] CR2: 0000000000000000
[ 6.059496] ---[ end trace 71a830f72f820be9 ]---

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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