[gpfsug-discuss] Kernel crashes with Spectrum Scale and RHEL 7.7 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7 kernel

[Lukas Hejtmanek]

And are you sure it is present only in -1062.18.1.el7 kernel? I think it is
present in all -1062.* kernels.. 

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 04:25:41PM +0000, Felipe Knop wrote:
>    Laurence,
>     
>    The problem affects all the Scale releases / PTFs.
>     
>      Felipe
>     
>    ----
>    Felipe Knop knop at us.ibm.com
>    GPFS Development and Security
>    IBM Systems
>    IBM Building 008
>    2455 South Rd, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
>    (845) 433-9314 T/L 293-9314
>     
>     
>     
> 
>      ----- Original message -----
>      From: "Schuler, Laurence (GSFC-606.4)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC]"
>      <laurence.schuler at nasa.gov>
>      Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org
>      To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
>      Cc:
>      Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] [EXTERNAL] Kernel crashes with Spectrum
>      Scale and RHEL 7.7 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7 kernel
>      Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2020 12:10 PM
>       
> 
>      Will this impact *any* version of Spectrum Scale?
> 
>       
> 
>      -Laurence
> 
>       
> 
>      From: <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org> on behalf of Felipe
>      Knop <knop at us.ibm.com>
>      Reply-To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
>      Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 11:30 AM
>      To: "gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org"
>      <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
>      Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] Kernel crashes with Spectrum Scale
>      and RHEL 7.7 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7 kernel
> 
>       
> 
>      All,
> 
>       
> 
>      A problem has been identified with Spectrum Scale when running on RHEL
>      7.7 and kernel 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.  While a fix is being currently
>      developed, customers should not move up to this kernel level.
> 
>       
> 
>      The new kernel was issued on March 17 via the following errata: 
>      [1]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0834
> 
>       
> 
>      When this kernel is used with Scale, system crashes have been observed.
>      The following are a couple of examples of kernel stack traces for the
>      crash:
> 
>       
> 
>       
> 
>      [ 2915.625015] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
>      0000000000000040
>      [ 2915.633770] IP: [<ffffffffc0e2cf90>]
>      cxiDropSambaDCacheEntry+0x190/0x1b0 [mmfslinux]
> 
>      [ 2915.914097]  [<ffffffffc0e3d28c>] gpfs_i_rmdir+0x29c/0x310
>      [mmfslinux]
>      [ 2915.921381]  [<ffffffffb9663130>] ?
>      take_dentry_name_snapshot+0xf0/0xf0
>      [ 2915.928760]  [<ffffffffb9664f60>] ? shrink_dcache_parent+0x60/0x90
>      [ 2915.935656]  [<ffffffffb96577cc>] vfs_rmdir+0xdc/0x150
>      [ 2915.941388]  [<ffffffffb965cca1>] do_rmdir+0x1f1/0x220
>      [ 2915.947119]  [<ffffffffb964ce66>] ? __fput+0x186/0x260
>      [ 2915.952849]  [<ffffffffb964d02e>] ? ____fput+0xe/0x10
>      [ 2915.958484]  [<ffffffffb94c2e60>] ? task_work_run+0xc0/0xe0
>      [ 2915.964701]  [<ffffffffb965df05>] SyS_unlinkat+0x25/0x40
> 
>       
> 
>      [1224278.495993] [<ffffffff88e63918>] __dentry_kill+0x128/0x190
>      [1224278.496678] [<ffffffff88e63a36>] dput+0xb6/0x1a0
>      [1224278.497378] [<ffffffff88e64116>] d_prune_aliases+0xb6/0xf0
>      [1224278.498083] [<ffffffffc0c2c0ea>] cxiPruneDCacheEntry+0x13a/0x1c0
>      [mmfslinux]
>      [1224278.498798] [<ffffffffc0eba608>]
>      _ZN10gpfsNode_t16invalidateOSNodeEPS_Pvij+0x108/0x350 [mmfs26]
> 
>       
> 
>       
> 
>      RHEL 7.8 is also impacted by the same problem, but validation of Scale
>      with 7.8 is still under way.
> 
>       
> 
>       
> 
>        Felipe
> 
>       
> 
>      ----
>      Felipe Knop knop at us.ibm.com
>      GPFS Development and Security
>      IBM Systems
>      IBM Building 008
>      2455 South Rd, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
>      (845) 433-9314 T/L 293-9314
>       
> 
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> References
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