Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 06:45:01 -0600 From: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: kernel bug in 11.3-STABLE causes frequent crashes Message-ID: <201911091245.xA9Cj1lo019826@sdf.org>
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The rest of this message was posted a little while ago to the
freebsd-questions list by mistake. It was intended for freebsd-stable,
so I am posting it here now after posting a brief apology on the other
list.
I have had to waste a great deal of time lately in recovering my
system from crashes due to a kernel bug. At present, my system is
FreeBSD hellas 11.3-STABLE FreeBSD 11.3-STABLE #12 r352571: Sat Sep 21 11:39:52 CDT 2019 bennett@hellas:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/hellas amd64
There are actually at least two problems, but this particular one has been
causing a large portion of my forced reboots. It usually fails to produce
a dump and freezes right after the panic and backtrace messages, as it did
earlier tonight, but Wednesday night it did create a dump, which I am
keeping in case it should prove helpful in getting the bug identified and
solved. I copied the console messages to paper painstakingly by hand.
They appear to be identical each time, except, of course, for the messages
that a dump is produced when, indeed, it does produce one. I am omitting
those fairly standard messages.
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
cpuid = 2; apic id = 02
fault virtual address = 0x3b8
fault code = supervisor read data, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x20:0xffffffff80a4b14c
stack pointer = 0x0:0xfffffe012a60ea50
frame pointer = 0x0:0xfffffe012a60eae0
code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
= DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1
processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process = 28 (flowcleaner)
trap number = 12
panic: page fault
cpuid = 2
KDB: stack backtrace:
#0 0xffffffff80a94707 at kdb_backtrace+0x67
#1 0xffffffff80a4fa2e at vpanic+0x17e
#2 0xffffffff80a4f8a3 at panic+0x43
#3 0xffffffff80f3a4d0 at trap_pfault+0
#4 0xffffffff80f3a519 at trap_pfault+0x49
#5 0xffffffff80f39bad at trap+0x29
#6 0xffffffff80f19f33 at calltrap+0x8
#7 0xffffffff80b3bb8d at flowtable_clean_vnet+0x43d
#8 0xffffffff80b3c758 at flowtable_cleaner+0xc8
#9 0xffffffff80a12ea2 at fork_exit+0x82
#10 0xffffffff80flaf4e at fork_trampoline+0xe
The machine is ancient. The CPU is a QX9650 (last group of Core 2
Quads) with 8 GB of DDR3 memory.
If this can be identified as a known bug and a clue provided to a
patch or a safer version to upgrade to, I would be grateful. I am getting
very, very tired of these crashes.
The other forced reboots I will describe in a separate message, but
that problem has existed since the time of 11.2-RELEASE and apparently was
never investigated, much less fixed, although people began complaining on
this list and possibly -questions within the first few days after the
release date.
Thanks in advance for any help with this problem!
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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