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Bug#1076555: linux-image-6.9.9-amd64: boot crash RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc

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Hi Ben,

Le lun. 2 sept. 2024 à 00:59, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> a écrit :
>
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:07:37 +0200 Patrice Duroux
> <patrice.duroux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Bastian,
> > Sorry I probably did something wrong with gnome-logs. Let's go then
> > with journalctl
> > and here are attached the complete log files, or at least I hope so!
> [...]
>
> OK, so we have:
>
> > WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 541 at mm/page_alloc.c:4556 __alloc_pages+0x2a3/0x340
>
> This means something tried to allocate a chunk of kernel memory that is
> larger than the kernel page allocator supports.
>
> [...]
> >  acpi_ds_build_internal_buffer_obj+0xa5/0x170
> >  acpi_ds_eval_data_object_operands+0x13a/0x140
> >  acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x440/0x500
> >  acpi_ps_parse_loop+0xfb/0x6b0
> >  acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x80/0x3d0
> >  acpi_ps_execute_method+0x13f/0x270
> >  acpi_ns_evaluate+0x128/0x2d0
> >  acpi_evaluate_object+0x14d/0x2f0
> >  __query_block+0x10a/0x1e0 [wmi]
> >  wmi_query_block+0x88/0xd0 [wmi]
> >  init_bios_attributes.part.0+0x55/0x2f0 [dell_wmi_sysman]
> >  sysman_init+0x158/0xff0 [dell_wmi_sysman]
> >  ? __pfx_sysman_init+0x10/0x10 [dell_wmi_sysman]
> >  do_one_initcall+0x58/0x320
> >  do_init_module+0x60/0x240
> >  init_module_from_file+0x89/0xe0
> >  idempotent_init_module+0x120/0x2b0
> >  __x64_sys_finit_module+0x5e/0xb0
>
> That happened during initialisation of the dell_wmi_sysman module.
>
> [...]
> > general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x800771b66d9d7272: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
> > CPU: 11 PID: 521 Comm: (udev-worker) Tainted: G        W          6.9.10-amd64 #1  Debian 6.9.10-1
> > Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision 7540/0T2FXT, BIOS 1.32.0 04/01/2024
> > RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xed/0x360
> [...]
> > general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x800771b66d9d7272: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
> > CPU: 11 PID: 696 Comm: fsck.ext4 Tainted: G      D W          6.9.10-amd64 #1  Debian 6.9.10-1
> > Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision 7540/0T2FXT, BIOS 1.32.0 04/01/2024
> > RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc+0xd7/0x340
> [...]
>
> Then later on the kernel heap allocation crashes, suggesting memory
> corruption.  Maybe related to the first failure, maybe not.
>
> - There is a newer kernel version available in unstable now (6.10.6 or
> maybe 6.10.7 by the time you read this).  Does that fix the issue?

Since then, I have upgraded and am now using the 6.11.x series from experimental
without experiencing this issue anymore.

> - Do these same error messages appear on every boot?

Often, but not always. I was also not sure if it could be related to #1076561
that I had seen pass by at the same time.

> - If you prevent the dell_wmi_sysman module loading, by adding
> "blacklist=dell_wmi_sysman" to the kernel command line, do all of the
> error messages stop appearing?

Would you like me to reinstall one of those kernel versions so as to
reproduce this issue
and try adding the option?

Many thanks,
Patrice

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Bug#1076555: linux-image-6.9.9-amd64: boot crash RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2024-07-29 13:50 +0200
  Bug#1076555: linux-image-6.9.9-amd64: boot crash RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-09-02 01:10 +0200
    Processed: Re: Bug#1076555: linux-image-6.9.9-amd64: boot crash  RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2024-09-02 01:10 +0200
    Bug#1076555: linux-image-6.9.9-amd64: boot crash RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc Patrice Duroux <patrice.duroux@gmail.com> - 2024-09-02 13:40 +0200
      Bug#1076555: linux-image-6.9.9-amd64: boot crash RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-09-05 02:20 +0200
        Bug#1076555: linux-image-6.9.9-amd64: boot crash RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc Patrice Duroux <patrice.duroux@gmail.com> - 2024-09-07 18:20 +0200

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