kernel panic on heavily loaded 2.4.20 router

Frank Dekervel (kervel-lkml@drie.kotnet.org)
Thu, 22 May 2003 21:47:39 +0200


hello,

a linux-2.4.20 (vanilla) machine we use as a router/iptables firewall
crashes once a month in what seems to be the IP stack
(see the lspci/lsmod/ksymoops output below). Does somebody know
what the cause could be ?

thanks,
greetings,
Frank

---- lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430FX - 82437FX TSC [Triton I] (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371FB PIIX ISA [Triton I] (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371FB PIIX IDE [Triton I] (rev 02)
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
00:13.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
00:14.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine 10/100] (rev 06)

---- modules

Module Size Used by Not tainted
ipt_limit 960 19 (autoclean)
ip_conntrack_ftp 3776 0 (unused)
ipt_state 608 4 (autoclean)
ipt_LOG 3232 13 (autoclean)
iptable_nat 14452 1 (autoclean)
ip_conntrack 16716 3 (autoclean) [ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_state iptable_nat]
iptable_filter 1728 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 10624 7 [ipt_limit ipt_state ipt_LOG iptable_nat iptable_filter]
serial 42336 0 (autoclean)
ne2k-pci 4832 2
8390 5952 0 [ne2k-pci]
via-rhine 11912 1
mii 2288 0 [via-rhine]
3c59x 24712 1

---- decoded panic

ksymoops 2.4.5 on i586 2.4.20. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.20/ (default)
-m /boot/System.map-2.4.20 (specified)

CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c01cc5fd>] Not tainted
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax: c0246a40 ebx: c0dd34e0 ecx: c0b118a0 edx: 00000000
esi: c1380300 edi: c07e4220 ebp: c0dc4800 esp: c024bdf0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c024b000)
Stack: c1380300 00000000 00000004 c01d886c c01d88fd c1380300 00000001 c0dc4800
c01ce9c6 c1380300 c1380300 c0dc4800 00000002 c01d5f1c 00000000 c02aee80
c01d8852 00000002 00000004 c1380300 00000000 c0dc4800 c01d886c c1380300
Call Trace: [<c01d886c>] [<c01d88fd>] [<c01ce9c6>] [<c01d5f1c>] [<c01d8852>]
[<c01d886c>] [<c01d5f6a>] [<c01ce9c6>] [<c01d05dc>] [<c01d5ec4>] [<c01d5f1c>]
[<c01d5178>] [<c01d52f9>] [<c01d5178>] [<c01ce9c6>] [<c01d5006>] [<c01d5178>]
[<c01c9593>] [<c01c962d>] [<c01c9740>] [<c0116cda>] [<c0109cad>] [<c0106e10>]
[<c010be38>] [<c0106e10>] [<c0106e33>] [<c0106e97>] [<c0105000>] [<c0105027>]
Code: 62 8b 40 02 25 ff ff 00 04 50 53 57 e8 ee fd ff 83 c4 0c

>>EIP; c01cc5fd <neigh_resolve_output+91/19c> <=====

>>eax; c0246a40 <ipv4_dst_ops+0/2c>
>>ebx; c0dd34e0 <_end+b2288c/25583ac>
>>ecx; c0b118a0 <_end+860c4c/25583ac>
>>esi; c1380300 <_end+10cf6ac/25583ac>
>>edi; c07e4220 <_end+5335cc/25583ac>
>>ebp; c0dc4800 <_end+b13bac/25583ac>
>>esp; c024bdf0 <init_task_union+1df0/2000>

Trace; c01d886c <ip_finish_output2+0/d0>
Trace; c01d88fd <ip_finish_output2+91/d0>
Trace; c01ce9c6 <nf_hook_slow+ee/144>
Trace; c01d5f1c <ip_forward_finish+0/54>
Trace; c01d8852 <ip_finish_output+fa/100>
Trace; c01d886c <ip_finish_output2+0/d0>
Trace; c01d5f6a <ip_forward_finish+4e/54>
Trace; c01ce9c6 <nf_hook_slow+ee/144>
Trace; c01d05dc <netlink_sendmsg+70/218>
Trace; c01d5ec4 <ip_forward+1a4/1fc>
Trace; c01d5f1c <ip_forward_finish+0/54>
Trace; c01d5178 <ip_rcv_finish+0/1b8>
Trace; c01d52f9 <ip_rcv_finish+181/1b8>
Trace; c01d5178 <ip_rcv_finish+0/1b8>
Trace; c01ce9c6 <nf_hook_slow+ee/144>
Trace; c01d5006 <ip_rcv+336/36c>
Trace; c01d5178 <ip_rcv_finish+0/1b8>
Trace; c01c9593 <netif_receive_skb+ff/12c>
Trace; c01c962d <process_backlog+6d/110>
Trace; c01c9740 <net_rx_action+70/108>
Trace; c0116cda <do_softirq+5a/ac>
Trace; c0109cad <do_IRQ+a1/b4>
Trace; c0106e10 <default_idle+0/28>
Trace; c010be38 <call_do_IRQ+5/d>
Trace; c0106e10 <default_idle+0/28>
Trace; c0106e33 <default_idle+23/28>
Trace; c0106e97 <cpu_idle+3f/54>
Trace; c0105000 <_stext+0/0>
Trace; c0105027 <rest_init+27/28>

Code; c01cc5fd <neigh_resolve_output+91/19c>
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code; c01cc5fd <neigh_resolve_output+91/19c> <=====
0: 62 8b 40 02 25 ff bound %ecx,0xff250240(%ebx) <=====
Code; c01cc603 <neigh_resolve_output+97/19c>
6: ff 00 incl (%eax)
Code; c01cc605 <neigh_resolve_output+99/19c>
8: 04 50 add $0x50,%al
Code; c01cc607 <neigh_resolve_output+9b/19c>
a: 53 push %ebx
Code; c01cc608 <neigh_resolve_output+9c/19c>
b: 57 push %edi
Code; c01cc609 <neigh_resolve_output+9d/19c>
c: e8 ee fd ff 83 call 83fffdff <_EIP+0x83fffdff> 441cc3fc Before first symbol
Code; c01cc60e <neigh_resolve_output+a2/19c>
11: c4 0c 00 les (%eax,%eax,1),%ecx

<0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!

-- 
Frank Dekervel - frank.dekervel@student.kuleuven.ac.be
Mechelsestraat 88
3000 Leuven (Belgium)
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