Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751184Ab3GEEak (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jul 2013 00:30:40 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f175.google.com ([209.85.214.175]:44159 "EHLO mail-ob0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750867Ab3GEEaj (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jul 2013 00:30:39 -0400 Message-ID: <51D64BEC.7090208@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 22:30:36 -0600 From: Robert Hancock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stephen@networkplumber.org, netdev , linux-kernel , David Miller Subject: KVM VM shutdown triggers BUG from network bridge code in 3.9.9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2225 Lines: 41 I've run into a problem after updating to Fedora 19 where if I shut down a Windows 7 KVM virtual machine, the machine hits a kernel panic. There are a few reports of this on 3.9.8 and 3.9.9 kernels here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981437 The panic is "kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:729!" and the stack traces all seem basically the same, something like this one (captured with kdump): #7 [ffff880214d25c10] mod_timer+501 at ffffffff8106d905 #8 [ffff880214d25c50] br_multicast_del_pg.isra.20+261 at ffffffffa0731d25 [bridge] #9 [ffff880214d25c80] br_multicast_disable_port+88 at ffffffffa0732948 [bridge] #10 [ffff880214d25cb0] br_stp_disable_port+154 at ffffffffa072bcca [bridge] #11 [ffff880214d25ce8] br_device_event+520 at ffffffffa072a4e8 [bridge] #12 [ffff880214d25d18] notifier_call_chain+76 at ffffffff8164aafc #13 [ffff880214d25d50] raw_notifier_call_chain+22 at ffffffff810858f6 #14 [ffff880214d25d60] call_netdevice_notifiers+45 at ffffffff81536aad #15 [ffff880214d25d80] dev_close_many+183 at ffffffff81536d17 #16 [ffff880214d25dc0] rollback_registered_many+168 at ffffffff81537f68 #17 [ffff880214d25de8] rollback_registered+49 at ffffffff81538101 #18 [ffff880214d25e10] unregister_netdevice_queue+72 at ffffffff815390d8 #19 [ffff880214d25e30] __tun_detach+272 at ffffffffa074c2f0 [tun] #20 [ffff880214d25e88] tun_chr_close+45 at ffffffffa074c4bd [tun] #21 [ffff880214d25ea8] __fput+225 at ffffffff8119b1f1 #22 [ffff880214d25ef0] ____fput+14 at ffffffff8119b3fe #23 [ffff880214d25f00] task_work_run+159 at ffffffff8107cf7f #24 [ffff880214d25f30] do_notify_resume+97 at ffffffff810139e1 #25 [ffff880214d25f50] int_signal+18 at ffffffff8164f292 It seems like the error is being triggered by the virtual network interface being torn down, though I have no idea why (from all reports so far) it only happens when shutting down a Windows 7 VM, or why this didn't happen in Fedora 18 (something to do with older kvm/qemu/libvirt perhaps..) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/