[oops, 2.6.37-rc1] Unpacking initramfs failed, oops infree_init_pages()

From: Dave Chinner
Date: Tue Nov 02 2010 - 21:55:50 EST


Folks,

Not sure yet if the initramfs image is corrupt or not yet, but it
triggered this crash on startup:

....
[ 2.835987] Unpacking initramfs...
[ 2.839374] Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
[ 2.845846] Freeing initrd memory: 44108k freed
[ 2.850364] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8800014ed000
[ 2.857314] IP: [<ffffffff8102d33e>] free_init_pages+0xd2/0xf8
[ 2.863138] PGD 1604063 PUD 1608063 PMD 332945063 PTE 14ed161
[ 2.868896] Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP
[ 2.872123] last sysfs file:
[ 2.875077] CPU 0
[ 2.876904] Modules linked in:
[ 2.880132]
[ 2.881615] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.37-rc1+ #114 0W844P/PowerEdge R510
[ 2.889325] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8102d33e>] [<ffffffff8102d33e>] free_init_pages+0xd2/0xf8
[ 2.897565] RSP: 0018:ffff880333441eb0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 2.902853] RAX: 00000000cccccccc RBX: ffff880004000000 RCX: 0000000000000400
[ 2.909957] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8800014ed000
[ 2.917063] RBP: ffff8800014ed000 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000005
[ 2.924168] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000003434313038 R12: 0000000000000400
[ 2.931273] R13: ffffea0000000000 R14: 00000000cccccccc R15: 0000000000000000
[ 2.938378] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88063fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 2.946436] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[ 2.952157] CR2: ffff8800014ed000 CR3: 0000000001603000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[ 2.959264] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 2.966368] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 2.973473] Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff880333440000, task ffff880633060000)
[ 2.981529] Stack:
[ 2.983529] ffff880000000000 ffffffff8169213d 0000000000000000 0000000000000200
[ 2.990928] 0000000000000000 ffffffff81692220 ffffffff81705b50 ffffffff81002079
[ 2.998327] 000000000000000f ffffffff81705b50 ffffffff81674180 0000000000000200
[ 3.005730] Call Trace:
[ 3.008167] [<ffffffff8169213d>] ? populate_rootfs+0x0/0xfd
[ 3.013803] [<ffffffff81692220>] ? populate_rootfs+0xe3/0xfd
[ 3.019524] [<ffffffff81002079>] ? do_one_initcall+0x78/0x131
[ 3.025333] [<ffffffff816906dc>] ? kernel_init+0x162/0x1ec
[ 3.030883] [<ffffffff8100a8a4>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[ 3.036950] [<ffffffff8169057a>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1ec
[ 3.042325] [<ffffffff8100a8a0>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
[ 3.048391] Code: 01 e8 f0 80 60 01 fb 48 89 ef e8 d2 41 00 00 48 c1 e8 0c 48 89 ef 4c 89 e1 48 6b c0 38 31 f6 42 c7 44 28 08 01 00 00 00 44 89 f0 <f3> ab 48 89 ef
[ 3.067787] RIP [<ffffffff8102d33e>] free_init_pages+0xd2/0xf8
[ 3.073691] RSP <ffff880333441eb0>
[ 3.077162] CR2: ffff8800014ed000
[ 3.080465] ---[ end trace 52609fe2a2756609 ]---
[ 3.085076] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init

Cheers,

Dave.
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