511444 – sys-fs/zfs-kmod-0.6.2-r5 with sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.14.4 - upon reading /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats - BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000080 in [<ffffffffa04618ac>] __kstat_create+0x66c/0x690 [spl]

Bug 511444 - sys-fs/zfs-kmod-0.6.2-r5 with sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.14.4 - upon reading /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats - BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000080 in [<ffffffffa04618ac>] __kstat_create+0x66c/0x690 [spl]

Summary: sys-fs/zfs-kmod-0.6.2-r5 with sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.14.4 - upon reading...

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Richard Yao (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2014-05-25 12:06 UTC by Matthias Maier
Modified:	2014-05-25 21:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Full dmesg output with kernel oops (dmesg,76.89 KB, text/plain) 2014-05-25 12:07 UTC, Matthias Maier	Details
emerge --info (emerge-info,5.43 KB, text/plain) 2014-05-25 12:07 UTC, Matthias Maier	Details
kernel configuration (kernel-config-x86_64-3.14.4-gentoo,92.25 KB, text/plain) 2014-05-25 12:09 UTC, Matthias Maier	Details
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Description Matthias Maier gentoo-dev

2014-05-25 12:06:05 UTC

With sys-fs/zfs-kmod-0.6.2-r5 (sys-fs/zfs-0.6.2-r5, sys-kernel/spl-0.6.2-r5) I encounter a NULL pointer dereference and Kernel Oops upon reading /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats (see attached dmesg).

This happens with sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.14.4, the currently stable version sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.12.13 is fine.

I also encounter some strange memory leak problems - slowly declining MemFree and MemAvailable by constant memory consumption from userland, and kernel (slab, buffer, cache) that I suspect are related to this. So this might be an indicator for a bigger problem with memory management - or memory accounting (which changed a bit in 3.14, e.g. new MemAvailable).

emerge --info and kernel configuration attached.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Matthias Maier gentoo-dev

2014-05-25 12:07:00 UTC

Created attachment 377610 [details]
Full dmesg output with kernel oops

Comment 2 Matthias Maier gentoo-dev

2014-05-25 12:07:46 UTC

Created attachment 377612 [details]
emerge --info

Comment 3 Matthias Maier gentoo-dev

2014-05-25 12:09:21 UTC

Created attachment 377614 [details]
kernel configuration

Comment 4 Matthias Maier gentoo-dev

2014-05-25 21:34:51 UTC

Well, I tried to investigate a bit and I could not reproduce on a test setup. Later, upon completely rebuilding everything the kernel oops (and the memory consumption problem) do not show up any more. So, this was very likely a layer 8 problem.

Sorry for the noise.