Symptoms

Silent reboot due to kernel bug triggered by user space process.

Impact

A unit reboots due to this kernel panic. This might affect production traffic. Here is the kernel panic message from the console log: log # BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null).

Conditions

This silent reboot occurs only in one specific environment. Conditions cannot be determined because the issue issue has not been reproduced. It is possible that this is a memory-related Linux kernel bug.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change