The kernel crashes in power_saving_thread()

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Server crashed with below messages:
[2871107.363578] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffe06ab618
[2871107.363976] PGD 11e6a12067 P4D 11e6a13067 PUD 11e6a15067 PMD 0 
[2871107.364295] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[2871107.364549] CPU: 30 PID: 3467660 Comm: acpi_pad/19 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE  X --------- -  - 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7.x86_64 #1
[2871107.365051] Hardware name: Cisco Systems Inc UCSB-B200-M6/UCSB-B200-M6, BIOS B200M6.4.3.2c.0.0726232000 07/26/2023
[2871107.365309] RIP: 0010:power_saving_thread+0x313/0x411 [acpi_pad]
[2871107.365566] Code: 89 cd 48 89 d3 eb d1 48 c7 c7 55 20 69 c0 e8 64 d6 39 de c6 05 0d a1 02 00 01 e9 bc fd ff ff 45 89 e4 42 8b 04 a5 20 32 69 c0 <f0> 48 0f b3 05 f4 9c 01 00 42 c7 04 a5 20 32 69 c0 ff ff ff ff 31
[2871107.366102] RSP: 0018:ff71205a5e193ec8 EFLAGS: 00010202
[2871107.366360] RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: ff4c06600e67af80 RCX: 0000000000000000
[2871107.366609] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000246 RDI: 0000000000000246
[2871107.366855] RBP: ff4c067d7d71c100 R08: 00000000000002f2 R09: ff4c06b20d1168d8
[2871107.367097] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000013
[2871107.367335] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffffffffffff R15: 0000000000000013
[2871107.367572] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff4c072fffb80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[2871107.367808] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[2871107.368038] CR2: ffffffffe06ab618 CR3: 00000011e6a10005 CR4: 0000000000771ee0
[2871107.368266] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[2871107.368493] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[2871107.368718] PKRU: 55555554
[2871107.368932] Call Trace:
[2871107.369143]  ? acpi_pad_add+0x120/0x120 [acpi_pad]
[2871107.369357]  kthread+0x10b/0x130
[2871107.369578]  ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
[2871107.369796]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    • acpi_pad

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