Hi all ! We got the following BUG already 9 times in the last 6 days on 9 different nodes of our HPC cluster. I searched but couldn't find this same BUG anywhere, but a similar one related to ecryptfs which we are not using. The servers are running openSUSE 12.1 with kernel 3.3.6. The nodes were updated from openSUSE 11.3 and kernel 2.6.34.7-0.5-default to openSUSE 12.1 and kernel 3.5.0. Servers and nodes are running util-linux-2.20.1 and are all 64 bit systems. The error appeared only after this update. Also after updating to kernel 3.5.1 we are getting the same error. The BUG is triggered by a java application that runs as a batch job for hours on the nodes. We are using autofs-5.0.7 on the HPC nodes and mounting only using NFS_V3, not using NFS_V4 at all. On one of these nodes the mount options are: c5n12:~ # mount | grep nfs nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,relatime) fs1:/data_4/ on /net/fs1/data_4 type nfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.0.3.203,mountvers=3,mountport=58521,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.0.3.203) fs1:/data_1/ on /net/fs1/data_1 type nfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.0.3.203,mountvers=3,mountport=58521,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.0.3.203) c3m:/opt/ on /net/c3m/opt type nfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.0.3.201,mountvers=3,mountport=35374,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.0.3.201) exportfs -v on the servers show all lines like: /data_1 *.c5.xxx.com(rw,wdelay,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.599388] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000038 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.599523] IP: [<ffffffffa03789cd>] nfs_lookup_revalidate+0x2d/0x480 [nfs] Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.599604] PGD 337c63067 PUD 0 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.599668] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.599732] CPU 5 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.599737] Modules linked in: nfs fscache nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc af_packet binfmt_misc cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave dm_mod acpi_cpufreq mperf coretemp gpio_ich kvm_intel joydev kvm ioatdma hid_generic igb lpc_ich i7core_edac edac_core ptp serio_raw dca pcspkr i2c_i801 mfd_core sg pps_core usbhid crc32c_intel microcode button autofs4 uhci_hcd ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit sysimgblt sysfillrect syscopyarea ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh edd fan ata_piix thermal processor thermal_sys Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.600411] Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.600466] Pid: 30431, comm: java Not tainted 3.5.1-2-default #1 Supermicro X8DTT/X8DTT Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.600594] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa03789cd>] [<ffffffffa03789cd>] nfs_lookup_revalidate+0x2d/0x480 [nfs] Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.600723] RSP: 0018:ffff8801b418bd38 EFLAGS: 00010292 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.600787] RAX: 00000000fffffff6 RBX: ffff88032016d800 RCX: 0000000000000020 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.600854] RDX: ffffffff00000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8801824a7b00 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.600921] RBP: ffff8801b418bdf8 R08: 7fffff0034323030 R09: fffffffff04c03ed Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.600989] R10: ffff8801824a7b00 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff8801824a7b00 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.601055] R13: ffff8801824a7b00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8803201725d0 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.601122] FS: 00002b53a46cb700(0000) GS:ffff88033fc20000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.601241] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.601335] CR2: 0000000000000038 CR3: 000000020a426000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.601401] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.601466] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.601532] Process java (pid: 30431, threadinfo ffff8801b418a000, task ffff8801b5d20600) Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.601650] Stack: Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.601706] ffff8801b418be44 ffff88032016d800 ffff8801b418bdf8 0000000000000000 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.601829] ffff8801824a7b00 ffff8801b418bdd7 ffff8803201725d0 ffffffff8116a9c0 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.601952] ffff8801b5c38dc0 0000000000000007 ffff88032016d800 0000000000000000 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.602076] Call Trace: Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.602153] [<ffffffff8116a9c0>] lookup_dcache+0x80/0xe0 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.602220] [<ffffffff8116aa43>] __lookup_hash+0x23/0x90 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.602284] [<ffffffff8116b4a5>] lookup_one_len+0xc5/0x100 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.602355] [<ffffffffa03869a3>] nfs_sillyrename+0xe3/0x210 [nfs] Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.602439] [<ffffffff8116cadf>] vfs_unlink.part.25+0x7f/0xe0 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.602504] [<ffffffff8116f22c>] do_unlinkat+0x1ac/0x1d0 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.602570] [<ffffffff815717b9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.602637] [<00002b5348b5f527>] 0x2b5348b5f526 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.602699] Code: ec 38 b8 f6 ff ff ff 4c 89 64 24 18 4c 89 74 24 28 49 89 fc 48 89 5c 24 08 48 89 6c 24 10 49 89 f6 4c 89 6c 24 20 4c 89 7c 24 30 <f6> 46 38 40 0f 85 d1 00 00 00 e8 c4 c4 df e0 48 8b 58 30 49 89 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.603008] RIP [<ffffffffa03789cd>] nfs_lookup_revalidate+0x2d/0x480 [nfs] Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.603080] RSP <ffff8801b418bd38> Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.603140] CR2: 0000000000000038 Aug 14 06:25:00 c5n12 kernel: [53043.603517] ---[ end trace 845113ed191985dd ]--- Is this a known BUG ? Which other information or test can I do to contribute searching/resolving this issue? Many thanks, Richard -- Richard Ems mail: Richard.Ems@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cape Horn Engineering S.L. C/ Dr. J.J. Dómine 1, 5º piso 46011 Valencia Tel : +34 96 3242923 / Fax 924 http://www.cape-horn-eng.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html