VBox failing host kernel with "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request" in syslog

[positron96]

Hello. Last night my virtual box crashed to a state when all virtual box windows and processes (existsing and new) on host went unresponsive, had to manually kill virtualbox* processes on host and restart them (loosing some work on guest systems).

System is: host: debian 6.0 x32, kernel 2.6.32-5-686, guests: ubuntu-server 12.04.1 x64, ubuntu-server 12.04.1 x64

I am no way linux guru, so I only found some syslog trace, witch I am attaching here:

Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694073] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 5301d6c9
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694095] IP: [<fafd78cd>] 0xfafd78cd
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694111] *pde = 00000000 
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694122] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP 
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694137] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sr0/stat
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694148] Modules linked in: ipt_REDIRECT xt_tcpudp vboxpci vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv binfmt_misc parport_pc ppdev lp parport sco bridge stp bnep rfcomm l2cap crc16 bluetooth rfkill pci_stub battery acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_stats nfsd exportfs nfs lockd fscache nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_tables x_tables fuse firewire_sbp2 loop snd_hda_codec_analog snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq nouveau ttm snd_timer drm_kms_helper snd_seq_device drm i2c_algo_bit snd i2c_i801 evdev shpchp x38_edac soundcore button i2c_core asus_atk0110 pci_hotplug snd_page_alloc pcspkr processor serio_raw edac_core ext3 jbd mbcache sg sd_mod crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom ata_generic uhci_hcd firewire_ohci pata_marvell ata_piix firewire_core ahci floppy libata sky2 crc_itu_t ehci_hcd sc
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: i_mod thermal usbcore thermal_sys nls_base [last unloaded: vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694688] 
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694706] Pid: 16686, comm: VirtualBox Not tainted (2.6.32-5-686 #1) P5E3-WS-Pro
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694739] EIP: 0060:[<fafd78cd>] EFLAGS: 00010297 CPU: 3
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694762] EIP is at 0xfafd78cd
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694781] EAX: acfd3550 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 5301d740 EDX: acfe28c0
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694802] ESI: acfe1880 EDI: acfd3510 EBP: f4473900 ESP: f4473888
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694823]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694844] Process VirtualBox (pid: 16686, ti=f4472000 task=c36b3300 task.ti=f4472000)
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694877] Stack:
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694893]  fe72c000 00000000 f44738d0 fafee030 fe74fbd8 fe72c000 fe74fbf8 fe733480
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694935] <0> 00000038 acfe0290 f4473900 fafa5f01 fe72c000 fe74c000 0674fba8 00000006
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.694993] <0> faff2870 00000006 fe7349e0 00000000 3efcf020 00118856 ad5cab70 acfd3510
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695065] Call Trace:
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695112]  [<c10250c0>] ? update_curr+0x106/0x1b3
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695146]  [<fe6e7c4b>] ? rtTimerLinuxHrCallback+0xe3/0x1fc [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695185]  [<fe6e66b7>] ? rtR0SemEventMultiLnxWait+0x335/0x361 [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695210]  [<c104432e>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695241]  [<c102035c>] ? enqueue_task+0x73/0x80
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695274]  [<fe6dd86a>] ? supdrvIOCtl+0x12de/0x2793 [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695303]  [<fe6e4851>] ? rtR0MemAllocEx+0x4a/0x91 [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695329]  [<fe6da392>] ? supdrvIOCtlFast+0x4e/0x60 [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695355]  [<fe6da17c>] ? VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl_4_2_6+0x0/0x16c [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695382]  [<fe6da1ad>] ? VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl_4_2_6+0x31/0x16c [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695409]  [<fe6da17c>] ? VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl_4_2_6+0x0/0x16c [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695433]  [<c10be1dc>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x1c/0x5f
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695454]  [<c10be770>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x4aa/0x4e5
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695475]  [<c104ed94>] ? tick_program_event+0x1f/0x23
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695497]  [<c1052416>] ? sys_futex+0xfc/0x111
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695518]  [<c10be7ec>] ? sys_ioctl+0x41/0x58
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695539]  [<c10030fb>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695559] Code: df 89 7d d4 0f 84 30 03 00 00 89 d3 29 fb 83 fa 01 19 c9 f7 d1 21 cb 89 5f 20 85 d2 74 12 8b 4d d4 29 d1 83 7d d4 01 19 db f7 d3 <21> 59 89 4a 24 c7 46 20 00 00 00 00 c7 46 24 00 00 00 00 8b 55 
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695821] EIP: [<fafd78cd>] 0xfafd78cd SS:ESP 0068:f4473888
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.695853] CR2: 000000005301d6c9
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.696180] ---[ end trace 0ef040562b815a2e ]---
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.841748] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 5291ac49
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.841786] IP: [<fafd78cd>] 0xfafd78cd
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.841818] *pde = 00000000 
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.841844] Oops: 0002 [#2] SMP 
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.841877] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sr0/stat
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.841914] Modules linked in: ipt_REDIRECT xt_tcpudp vboxpci vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv binfmt_misc parport_pc ppdev lp parport sco bridge stp bnep rfcomm l2cap crc16 bluetooth rfkill pci_stub battery acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_stats nfsd exportfs nfs lockd fscache nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_tables x_tables fuse firewire_sbp2 loop snd_hda_codec_analog snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq nouveau ttm snd_timer drm_kms_helper snd_seq_device drm i2c_algo_bit snd i2c_i801 evdev shpchp x38_edac soundcore button i2c_core asus_atk0110 pci_hotplug snd_page_alloc pcspkr processor serio_raw edac_core ext3 jbd mbcache sg sd_mod crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom ata_generic uhci_hcd firewire_ohci pata_marvell ata_piix firewire_core ahci floppy libata sky2 crc_itu_t ehci_hcd sc
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: i_mod thermal usbcore thermal_sys nls_base [last unloaded: vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.842792] 
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.842811] Pid: 19234, comm: VirtualBox Tainted: G      D    (2.6.32-5-686 #1) P5E3-WS-Pro
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.842847] EIP: 0060:[<fafd78cd>] EFLAGS: 00010297 CPU: 2
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.842872] EIP is at 0xfafd78cd
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.842892] EAX: ad6d7550 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 5291acc0 EDX: ad6e5340
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.842916] ESI: ad6e53a0 EDI: ad6d7510 EBP: cd845900 ESP: cd845888
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.842939]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.842962] Process VirtualBox (pid: 19234, ti=cd844000 task=eda27b40 task.ti=cd844000)
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.842996] Stack:
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843014]  f82a1000 00000000 cd8458d0 fafee030 f82c4bd8 ad6e4c50 f82c4bf8 f82a8480
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843080] <0> 00000038 ad6e4290 cd845900 fafa5f01 f82a1000 f82c1000 062c4ba8 00000006
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843168] <0> faff2870 00000006 f82a99e0 00000000 dd2d6d6e 0016ef04 adbcdb70 ad6d7510
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843271] Call Trace:
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843314]  [<c10144d5>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6c/0x76
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843362]  [<c10209f1>] ? __wake_up_common+0x34/0x59
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843391]  [<fe6e6d91>] ? VBoxHost_RTSpinlockAcquire+0x13/0x1e [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843430]  [<fe6e7c4b>] ? rtTimerLinuxHrCallback+0xe3/0x1fc [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843468]  [<c106f953>] ? rcu_process_callbacks+0x33/0x39
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843492]  [<c1035b01>] ? __do_softirq+0x115/0x156
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843518]  [<c1035c5d>] ? irq_exit+0x36/0x58
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843540]  [<c10144d5>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6c/0x76
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843577]  [<c10266b5>] ? enqueue_task_fair+0x38/0x6d
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843620]  [<fe6e0561>] ? SUPSemEventSignal+0x4a/0x5a [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843647]  [<fe6de645>] ? supdrvIOCtl+0x20b9/0x2793 [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843676]  [<fe6e4851>] ? rtR0MemAllocEx+0x4a/0x91 [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843703]  [<fe6da392>] ? supdrvIOCtlFast+0x4e/0x60 [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843734]  [<fe6da17c>] ? VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl_4_2_6+0x0/0x16c [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843761]  [<fe6da1ad>] ? VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl_4_2_6+0x31/0x16c [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843789]  [<fe6da17c>] ? VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl_4_2_6+0x0/0x16c [vboxdrv]
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843814]  [<c10be1dc>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x1c/0x5f
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843837]  [<c10be770>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x4aa/0x4e5
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843860]  [<c126dfb6>] ? schedule+0x78f/0x7dc
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843883]  [<c10be7ec>] ? sys_ioctl+0x41/0x58
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843906]  [<c10030fb>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.843928] Code: df 89 7d d4 0f 84 30 03 00 00 89 d3 29 fb 83 fa 01 19 c9 f7 d1 21 cb 89 5f 20 85 d2 74 12 8b 4d d4 29 d1 83 7d d4 01 19 db f7 d3 <21> 59 89 4a 24 c7 46 20 00 00 00 00 c7 46 24 00 00 00 00 8b 55 
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.844367] EIP: [<fafd78cd>] 0xfafd78cd SS:ESP 0068:cd845888
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.844407] CR2: 000000005291ac49
Mar 17 13:37:32 chief kernel: [7681515.844436] ---[ end trace 0ef040562b815a2f ]---

[mclark]

Affecting me as well with the exact same error messages on Ubuntu 13.04 on kernel 3.8.0-19: uname -a --> Linux MA11355 3.8.0-19-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17 18:16:28 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925886] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00007f73c416c488
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925897] IP: [<ffffffffa0fa1eaa>] 0xffffffffa0fa1ea9
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925904] PGD 15f10c067 PUD 2cdb5a067 PMD 260ac6166 PTE 1f597e067
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925909] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925913] Modules linked in: nfsv3(F) nfsv4(F) pci_stub vboxpci(OF) vboxnetadp(OF) vboxnetflt(OF) vboxdrv(OF) snd_hda_codec_hdmi autofs4(F) snd_hda_codec_analog coretemp kvm_intel joydev(F) kvm hid_generic ghash_clmulni_intel(F) aesni_intel(F) aes_x86_64(F) xts(F) lrw(F) gf128mul(F) ablk_helper(F) cryptd(F) btusb usbhid hid gpio_ich dell_wmi sparse_keymap usb_storage(F) ppdev(F) dcdbas microcode(F) psmouse(F) serio_raw(F) rfcomm snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep(F) lpc_ich snd_pcm(F) snd_page_alloc(F) snd_seq_midi(F) snd_seq_midi_event(F) snd_rawmidi(F) i7core_edac nvidia(POF) edac_core parport_pc(F) snd_seq(F) snd_seq_device(F) snd_timer(F) snd(F) wmi soundcore(F) mac_hid shpchp bnep bluetooth nfsd(F) auth_rpcgss(F) nfs_acl(F) nfs(F) lockd(F) lp(F) parport(F) sunrpc(F) binfmt_misc(F) fscache(F) ahci(F) tg3 libahci(F) ptp pps_core
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925959] CPU 0 
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925964] Pid: 39285, comm: EMT-0 Tainted: PF          O 3.8.0-19-generic #29-Ubuntu Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation T5500  /0CRH6C
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925967] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0fa1eaa>]  [<ffffffffa0fa1eaa>] 0xffffffffa0fa1ea9
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925971] RSP: 0018:ffff880287b4dc18  EFLAGS: 00010202
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925973] RAX: 00007f73c416c000 RBX: ffffc9000829c000 RCX: 0000000000000000
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925974] RDX: ffff880287b4dc68 RSI: 00000000000000c6 RDI: 00007f73f62a0188
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925976] RBP: ffff880287b4dcb8 R08: 0000000000000091 R09: 000000005232f000
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925978] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000091 R12: 000000005232f000
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925979] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffffc90008281000 R15: 0000000000000000
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925981] FS:  00007f741556d700(0000) GS:ffff880323600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925983] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925984] CR2: 00007f73c416c488 CR3: 000000015f23a000 CR4: 00000000000027f0
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925986] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925988] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925990] Process EMT-0 (pid: 39285, threadinfo ffff880287b4c000, task ffff8802e65d1740)
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925991] Stack:
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925993]  ffff880287b4dc38 00000000006f76b3 0000000000000000 ffffc90008281000
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.925997]  ffff81df40000fff ffffffffa0fbffff 880323604000007f 880323604000007f
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926000]  ffffc9000829cb40 ffff880287b4dce7 00007f73c416c000 0000000000000000
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926003] Call Trace:
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926042]  [<ffffffffa0e7d4dd>] ? rtR0MemAllocEx+0x17d/0x250 [vboxdrv]
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926052]  [<ffffffff8117c788>] ? kfree+0x28/0x110
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926060]  [<ffffffffa0e72a07>] ? supdrvIOCtlFast+0x77/0xa0 [vboxdrv]
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926067]  [<ffffffffa0e6f37c>] ? VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl_4_2_10+0x4c/0x1f0 [vboxdrv]
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926073]  [<ffffffff811a5919>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x99/0x570
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926082]  [<ffffffff8114b3e8>] ? vm_mmap_pgoff+0x88/0xb0
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926085]  [<ffffffff811a5e81>] ? sys_ioctl+0x91/0xb0
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926094]  [<ffffffff816d379d>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926096] Code: fe ff 83 f8 00 41 89 c7 0f 85 7b 02 00 00 4c 89 e9 83 e1 01 75 20 4d 89 e3 48 8b 45 b0 49 c1 eb 15 41 81 e3 ff 01 00 00 45 89 d8 <42> f6 04 c0 01 0f 84 db 01 00 00 4c 8b 8b a0 46 00 00 4d 21 e1 
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926124] RIP  [<ffffffffa0fa1eaa>] 0xffffffffa0fa1ea9
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926127]  RSP <ffff880287b4dc18>
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926128] CR2: 00007f73c416c488
May  1 10:43:45 MA11355 kernel: [ 8075.926132] ---[ end trace 9be87b560cb5e4a3 ]---

[Frank Mehnert]

Your problem looks rather like related to #11610. I assume Linux 3.7 works for you?