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wastedyouth1
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Nov 18, 2012

Repeating GPF

Hi

I was wondering if anyone could advise on the cause of the GPF's I'm seeing in the syslog of my ReadyNas Pro. These happen once a week at least an normally result in my having to powercycle the NAS.
Extract from syslog below

Nov 15 16:01:10 Nassy2 kernel: alloc_fd: slot 5 not NULL!
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [#3] SMP
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/block/md3/md/sync_action
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: CPU 1
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: Modules linked in: pvgpio nv6vpd(P)
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel:
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: Pid: 17596, comm: grep Tainted: P D 2.6.37.6.RNx86_64.2.4 #1 NETGEAR ReadyNAS/
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff880ac8c7>] [<ffffffff880ac8c7>] filp_close+0x17/0x90
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: RSP: 0000:ffff88007094df28 EFLAGS: 00010286
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: RAX: fffffffffffffffd RBX: 0400c8328bf591e0 RCX: 0000000000000001
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880077c13440 RDI: 0400c8328bf591e0
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: RBP: ffff88007094df48 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00000000fffce810
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: R10: ffff88007094c000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880077c134c0
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0400c8328bf591e0 R15: 0000000000000000
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007ee80000(0063) knlGS:00000000f764e6b0
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: CR2: 00000000f76b55d0 CR3: 0000000070b49000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: Process grep (pid: 17596, threadinfo ffff88007094c000, task ffff88007083db00)
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: Stack:
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: 0000000000000000 ffff880077c13440 ffff880077c134c0 0000000000000001
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: ffff88007094df78 ffffffff880adae4 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000fffce810 ffffffff88024c53
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: Call Trace:
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff880adae4>] sys_close+0xa4/0x100
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff88024c53>] ia32_sysret+0x0/0x5
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: Code: 83 80 00 00 00 48 8b 1c 24 4c 8b 64 24 08 c9 c3 66 66 66 90 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 20 48 89 5d e8 4c 89 65 f0 48 89 fb 4c 89 6d f8 <48> 8b 47 30 49 89 f4 48 85 c0 74 52 48 8b 47 20 48 85 c0 74 44
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: RIP [<ffffffff880ac8c7>] filp_close+0x17/0x90
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: RSP <ffff88007094df28>
Nov 15 16:01:12 Nassy2 kernel: ---[ end trace 2c9ff00a9fb03955 ]---
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [#4] SMP
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/block/md3/md/sync_action
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: CPU 3
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: Modules linked in: pvgpio nv6vpd(P)
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel:
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: Pid: 17596, comm: grep Tainted: P D 2.6.37.6.RNx86_64.2.4 #1 NETGEAR ReadyNAS/
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff880ac8c7>] [<ffffffff880ac8c7>] filp_close+0x17/0x90
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: RSP: 0000:ffff88007094dcd8 EFLAGS: 00010286
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: RAX: ffff880077dff010 RBX: 01000608c5620620 RCX: 0000000000000000
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880077c13440 RDI: 01000608c5620620
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: RBP: ffff88007094dcf8 R08: ffff88007094c000 R09: 0000000000000001
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880077c13440
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88000c6d8ac0 R15: 0000000000000010
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007ef80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: CR2: 00000000f776df05 CR3: 0000000071345000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: Process grep (pid: 17596, threadinfo ffff88007094c000, task ffff88007083db00)
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: Stack:
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: ffff8800784a2300 000000000000007f ffff880077c13440 0000000000000000
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: ffff88007094dd38 ffffffff88036843 0000000000000000 ffff88007083db00
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: ffff880077c13440 ffff88007083db00 000000000000009c ffff88007e8fb840
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: Call Trace:
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff88036843>] put_files_struct+0xc3/0xd0
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff88036895>] exit_files+0x45/0x50
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff88037a20>] do_exit+0x190/0x770
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff88002bce>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0xe/0x20
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff88035fd0>] ? kmsg_dump+0x110/0x160
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff88006506>] oops_end+0xa6/0xb0
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff88006606>] die+0x56/0x90
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff880040f2>] do_general_protection+0x152/0x160
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff885b48ef>] general_protection+0x1f/0x30
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff880ac8c7>] ? filp_close+0x17/0x90
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff880adae4>] sys_close+0xa4/0x100
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: [<ffffffff88024c53>] ia32_sysret+0x0/0x5
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: Code: 83 80 00 00 00 48 8b 1c 24 4c 8b 64 24 08 c9 c3 66 66 66 90 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 20 48 89 5d e8 4c 89 65 f0 48 89 fb 4c 89 6d f8 <48> 8b 47 30 49 89 f4 48 85 c0 74 52 48 8b 47 20 48 85 c0 74 44
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: RIP [<ffffffff880ac8c7>] filp_close+0x17/0x90
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: RSP <ffff88007094dcd8>
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: ---[ end trace 2c9ff00a9fb03956 ]---
Nov 15 16:01:14 Nassy2 kernel: Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!


I'm hoping it's just a memory issue which can be easily resolved. Anyone recognise the problem?

Thanks in advance :)

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