Hello All, I see kernel crashes in some of my x86_64 machines only during the system boot up. Specifically, it happens when one of the strongswan daemons is started. I have seen it quite a few times in Linux 3.2 stable branch. I do not have a good reproduction scenario yet. The kernel backtrace is as follows. CPU 5 [ 69.435004] Modules linked in: openvswitch(O) seqiv algif_skcipher md4 algif_hash af_alg aesni_intel cryptd aes_x86_64 xfrm_user xfrm4_tunnel tunnel4 ipcomp xfrm_ipcomp esp4 ah4 deflate ctr twofish_gener ic twofish_x86_64_3way twofish_x86_64 twofish_common camellia serpent blowfish_generic blowfish_x86_64 blowfish_common cast5 des_generic xcbc rmd160 sha512_generic crypto_null af_key psmouse ioatdma i7core_ edac serio_raw edac_core lp dca mac_hid parport usbhid hid bnx2x btrfs e1000e megaraid_sas mdio zlib_de flate libcrc32c [ 69.436890] [ 69.436927] Pid: 1293, comm: pluto Tainted: G O 3.2.30+ #5 iXsystems iX22X4-TTH6RF/X8DTT-H [ 69.437076] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812d568f>] [<ffffffff812d568f>] crypto_larval_kill+0x2f/0x90 [ 69.437163] RSP: 0018:ffff880be4033c38 EFLAGS: 00010292 [ 69.437206] RAX: dead000000200200 RBX: ffff880be3c93e00 RCX: 0000000000000159 [ 69.437252] RDX: ffff880be3c90a00 RSI: 0000000000016660 RDI: ffffffff81c62ec0 [ 69.437298] RBP: ffff880be4033c48 R08: ffffea002f8f2400 R09: ffffffff812d5c20 [ 69.437344] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: fffffffffffffffe [ 69.437390] R13: 0000000000000004 R14: ffff880be4033cd0 R15: ffff880be461dbc0 [ 69.437437] FS: 00007f1e97beb700(0000) GS:ffff880c0fca0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 69.437499] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 69.437557] CR2: 00007fab55f7e120 CR3: 0000000be46d8000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 69.437616] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 69.437676] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 69.437736] Process pluto (pid: 1293, threadinfo ffff880be4032000, task ffff880be461dbc0) [ 69.437811] Stack: [ 69.437861] ffff880be3c93e00 fffffffffffffffe ffff880be4033c68 ffffffff812d5eeb [ 69.438067] 0000000000000000 000000000000020c ffff880be4033cb8 ffffffff812d5f81 [ 69.438271] ffff880be4033cc8 ffff880be4033c88 dead000000100100 0000000000000000 [ 69.438477] Call Trace: [ 69.438531] [<ffffffff812d5eeb>] crypto_alg_mod_lookup+0x6b/0x90 [ 69.438590] [<ffffffff812d5f81>] crypto_alloc_base+0x41/0xb0 [ 69.438651] [<ffffffffa02a8a58>] cryptd_alloc_ablkcipher+0x88/0xc0 [cryptd] [ 69.438712] [<ffffffff812d5802>] ? __crypto_alloc_tfm+0x52/0x160 [ 69.438773] [<ffffffffa02b84c1>] ablk_rfc3686_ctr_init+0x21/0x40 [aesni_intel] [ 69.438848] [<ffffffff812d5879>] __crypto_alloc_tfm+0xc9/0x160 [ 69.438907] [<ffffffff812d6fac>] crypto_spawn_tfm+0x4c/0x90 [ 69.438966] [<ffffffff8115df3c>] ? __kmalloc+0x12c/0x190 [ 69.439025] [<ffffffff812da33b>] skcipher_geniv_init+0x2b/0x50 [ 69.439083] [<ffffffffa02d605c>] seqiv_init+0x1c/0x20 [seqiv] [ 69.439142] [<ffffffff812d5879>] __crypto_alloc_tfm+0xc9/0x160 [ 69.439201] [<ffffffff812d97eb>] crypto_alloc_ablkcipher+0x6b/0xc0 [ 69.439261] [<ffffffffa02d036e>] skcipher_bind+0xe/0x10 [algif_skcipher] [ 69.439322] [<ffffffffa02c6426>] alg_bind+0x76/0x130 [af_alg] [ 69.439382] [<ffffffff8151d1c4>] sys_bind+0xe4/0x100 [ 69.439439] [<ffffffff8151cee0>] ? sys_socket+0x40/0x70 [ 69.439498] [<ffffffff81644c82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 69.439556] Code: 53 48 83 ec 08 66 66 66 66 90 48 89 fb 48 c7 c7 c0 2e c6 81 e8 33 67 36 00 48 8b 13 48 8b 43 08 48 c7 c7 c0 2e c6 81 48 89 42 08 <48> 89 10 48 b8 00 01 10 00 00 00 ad de 48 ba 00 02 20 00 00 00 The kernel backtrace is not always the same. But crypto_alg_mod_lookup is common across different back traces. Can someone please shed some light on where the problem could be? I can try and reproduce and provide more information, if I get some context on why it happens only during system startup. Thanks, Guru. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
