[Crash-utility] 4.8.0-rc5+: crash: invalid kernel virtual address: 0 type: "read_string characters"

[Dave Anderson]

Hello Cai,

You are using crash-7.1.5-1.el7, but this issue has been fixed upstream in
a patch that is queued for crash-7.1.6:

 https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/commit/7136bf8495948cb059e5595b8503f8ae37019fa1

  commit 7136bf8495948cb059e5595b8503f8ae37019fa1
  Author: Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com>
  Date:   Thu May 19 14:01:19 2016 -0400

    Fix for Linux commit edf14cdbf9a0e5ab52698ca66d07a76ade0d5c46, which
    has appended a NULL entry as the final member of the pageflag_names[]
    array.  Without the patch, a message that indicates "crash: failed to
    read pageflag_names entry" is displayed during session initialization
    in Linux 4.6 kernels.
    (andrej.skvortzov at gmail.com)

Thanks,
  Dave

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> ----- Original Message -----
> > FYI.
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> > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/424961/47344821/
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> > crash: invalid kernel virtual address: 0  type: "read_string characters"
> > crash: failed to read pageflag_names entry
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> Thanks Cai, I'll provision a machine with Fedora
> kernel-4.8.0-0.rc5.git3.1.fc25
> next week and check it out.
> 
> Dave
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