Kernel Panic, Nvidia driver, happens when using Chromium

Hi,
Recently my computer has frozen a few times (3 times in fortnight, hasn’t happened for at least 4 years) when interacting with Chromium, and digging into the journal after performing a hardware restart reveals a kernel panic had occurred, although the back trace suggests the NV drivers are at fault I cannot help but suspect Chromium is involved (it only happens when using Chromium)

Journal logs:

Any suggestions welcome, including uninstall Chromium

Thanks

Marcus

460.39 just came out today and manjaro has it in unstable. it MIGHT fix it:

aplattner Moderator

We still haven’t been able to reproduce the problem so we haven’t been able to verify a fix, but the next release will contain a change that is supposed to fix this. Once the next release comes out, please give it a try and let me know whether you still experience the problem.

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Thanks Steanne,

I had a good look through that thread, and some were suggesting the panic’s were less frequent when using Firefox, until the updated driver arrives in LTS I’ll act accordingly.

Much appreciated

KR

M

…and not fixed. thought it did take a while to show, so it may be at least reduced.

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One last thing for anyone that stumbles on this, I’m still getting the occasional and unpredictable kernel panic. Currently if it wasn’t for the global shortage of components then I would have upgraded/refurbished my PC in early January. This has been a blessing in disguise because when I do get new components the GPU will not be Nvidia… it will be AMD, and yes Linus was right

youtube watch: _36yNWw_07g for those that don’t know what I’m referring to.

getting freezes here too, exclusively on google chrome (probably chromium too), no freezes in firefox so far, symptoms same as in the nvidia forum post, screen freeze, audio stops couple seconds afterwards, logs show null pointer dereference

Logs
Feb 20 11:51:33 zepar-pc kernel: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: PGD 19195f067 P4D 19195f067 PUD 0 
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: CPU: 11 PID: 664 Comm: irq/66-nvidia Tainted: P           OE     5.10.15-1-MANJARO #1
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./A320M-DVS R4.0, BIOS P2.20 06/26/2019
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RIP: 0010:_nv013013rm+0xd8/0x130 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Code: 40 00 31 c0 5b 41 5c 41 5d c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 c7 46 38 00 00 00 00 48 89 f7 45 31 ed e8 dd 7a ff ff eb 9b 0f 1f 00 <49> 8b 7c 24 08 e8 de 29 00 00 48 85 c0 74 b4 49 83 7c 24 08 00 74
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffbd88c339bc40 EFLAGS: 00010246
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff9d9524b7db88 RCX: 0000000000000010
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RDX: ffff9d95231edd18 RSI: 00000000004789f2 RDI: ffff9d952d8802f0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RBP: ffff9d9524b7db10 R08: ffffffffc233a960 R09: ffff9d9524b7da60
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: R10: ffff9d9523b04008 R11: ffff9d9523b05098 R12: 0000000000000000
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00000000beef0003 R15: ffff9d9524b7dbd0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9d980eac0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 0000000192e40000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Call Trace:
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? _nv000082rm+0x16c/0x1e0 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? _nv012946rm+0xff/0x180 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? _nv019582rm+0x1af/0x210 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? _nv019533rm+0xdf2/0xef0 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? _nv019534rm+0xf3/0x290 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? _nv019500rm+0x78/0xd0 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? _nv019514rm+0xcf/0x2f0 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? _nv019548rm+0xbe/0xe0 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? _nv028760rm+0x97b/0xdc0 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? _nv028768rm+0x15d/0x400 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? _nv000710rm+0xa9/0x240 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? disable_irq_nosync+0x10/0x10
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? rm_isr_bh+0x1c/0x60 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? nvidia_isr_kthread_bh+0x1b/0x40 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? irq_thread_fn+0x20/0x60
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? irq_thread+0xf5/0x1a0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? irq_finalize_oneshot.part.0+0xe0/0xe0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? irq_thread_check_affinity+0xd0/0xd0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? kthread+0x133/0x150
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? __kthread_bind_mask+0x60/0x60
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Modules linked in: hid_sony ff_memless joydev mousedev snd_usb_audio snd_usbmidi_lib snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device mc usbhid rfkill snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_codec_hdmi ledtrig_audio snd_hda_intel snd_intel_dspcfg soundwire_intel edac_mce_amd soundwire_generic_allocation kvm_amd soundwire_cadence vfat uinput kvm fat snd_hda_codec nvidia_drm(POE) snd_hda_core nvidia_modeset(POE) snd_hwdep soundwire_bus irqbypass snd_soc_core drm_kms_helper crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel snd_compress cec wmi_bmof ac97_bus aesni_intel r8169 crypto_simd snd_pcm_dmaengine cryptd glue_helper realtek drm snd_pcm rapl ccp mdio_devres agpgart snd_timer syscopyarea snd libphy rng_core sysfillrect pcspkr sp5100_tco sysimgblt k10temp i2c_piix4 fb_sys_fops soundcore wmi pinctrl_amd mac_hid gpio_amdpt gpio_generic acpi_cpufreq nvidia(POE) fuse crypto_user ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc32c_generic crc16 mbcache jbd2 crc32c_intel xhci_pci
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: CR2: 0000000000000008
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: ---[ end trace a033309e134f4dc2 ]---
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:08:00.3: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #1. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RIP: 0010:_nv013013rm+0xd8/0x130 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Code: 40 00 31 c0 5b 41 5c 41 5d c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 c7 46 38 00 00 00 00 48 89 f7 45 31 ed e8 dd 7a ff ff eb 9b 0f 1f 00 <49> 8b 7c 24 08 e8 de 29 00 00 48 85 c0 74 b4 49 83 7c 24 08 00 74
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffbd88c339bc40 EFLAGS: 00010246
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff9d9524b7db88 RCX: 0000000000000010
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RDX: ffff9d95231edd18 RSI: 00000000004789f2 RDI: ffff9d952d8802f0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RBP: ffff9d9524b7db10 R08: ffffffffc233a960 R09: ffff9d9524b7da60
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: R10: ffff9d9523b04008 R11: ffff9d9523b05098 R12: 0000000000000000
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00000000beef0003 R15: ffff9d9524b7dbd0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9d980eac0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 0000000192e40000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000959
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: PGD 19195f067 P4D 19195f067 PUD 0 
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Oops: 0002 [#2] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: CPU: 11 PID: 664 Comm: irq/66-nvidia Tainted: P      D    OE     5.10.15-1-MANJARO #1
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./A320M-DVS R4.0, BIOS P2.20 06/26/2019
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x10/0x20
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Code: 03 31 c0 c3 eb d4 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 be 02 00 00 00 e9 a1 fa ff ff 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 c0 65 48 8b 14 25 c0 7b 01 00 <f0> 48 0f b1 17 75 01 c3 eb d6 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 41
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffbd88c339be30 EFLAGS: 00010246
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RDX: ffff9d9524b93d80 RSI: 0000000000001b41 RDI: 0000000000000959
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RBP: 0000000000000959 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: R10: ffff9d9513783800 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9d9524b94574
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff9d9524b93d80
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9d980eac0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: CR2: 0000000000000959 CR3: 0000000192e40000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Call Trace:
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  perf_event_exit_task+0x30/0x440
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? kfree+0x40c/0x440
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  do_exit+0x382/0xa70
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? task_work_run+0x5c/0x90
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? do_exit+0x372/0xa70
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? kthread+0x133/0x150
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel:  ? rewind_stack_do_exit+0x17/0x17
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Modules linked in: hid_sony ff_memless joydev mousedev snd_usb_audio snd_usbmidi_lib snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device mc usbhid rfkill snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_codec_hdmi ledtrig_audio snd_hda_intel snd_intel_dspcfg soundwire_intel edac_mce_amd soundwire_generic_allocation kvm_amd soundwire_cadence vfat uinput kvm fat snd_hda_codec nvidia_drm(POE) snd_hda_core nvidia_modeset(POE) snd_hwdep soundwire_bus irqbypass snd_soc_core drm_kms_helper crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel snd_compress cec wmi_bmof ac97_bus aesni_intel r8169 crypto_simd snd_pcm_dmaengine cryptd glue_helper realtek drm snd_pcm rapl ccp mdio_devres agpgart snd_timer syscopyarea snd libphy rng_core sysfillrect pcspkr sp5100_tco sysimgblt k10temp i2c_piix4 fb_sys_fops soundcore wmi pinctrl_amd mac_hid gpio_amdpt gpio_generic acpi_cpufreq nvidia(POE) fuse crypto_user ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc32c_generic crc16 mbcache jbd2 crc32c_intel xhci_pci
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: CR2: 0000000000000959
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: ---[ end trace a033309e134f4dc3 ]---
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RIP: 0010:_nv013013rm+0xd8/0x130 [nvidia]
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Code: 40 00 31 c0 5b 41 5c 41 5d c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 c7 46 38 00 00 00 00 48 89 f7 45 31 ed e8 dd 7a ff ff eb 9b 0f 1f 00 <49> 8b 7c 24 08 e8 de 29 00 00 48 85 c0 74 b4 49 83 7c 24 08 00 74
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffbd88c339bc40 EFLAGS: 00010246
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff9d9524b7db88 RCX: 0000000000000010
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RDX: ffff9d95231edd18 RSI: 00000000004789f2 RDI: ffff9d952d8802f0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: RBP: ffff9d9524b7db10 R08: ffffffffc233a960 R09: ffff9d9524b7da60
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: R10: ffff9d9523b04008 R11: ffff9d9523b05098 R12: 0000000000000000
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00000000beef0003 R15: ffff9d9524b7dbd0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9d980eac0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: CR2: 0000000000000959 CR3: 0000000192e40000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
Feb 20 11:51:34 zepar-pc kernel: Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!

am on newest update right now

there’s another possible fix to test: 460.56 is in unstable now.

prapatel Employee

7h

We have fix available for similar kind of issue and its fix in our latest release which is available to download on below link.
https://www.nvidia.co.in/Download/driverResults.aspx/170813/en-in

Please test with the above driver and share the feedback.

460.56 has been working for me so far. i’ve spent several hours each of the last couple of days gaming and using discord, which is usually a trigger for me (discord is an electron app, whihc means it’s chromium-based) and have had no freezes or even issues showing in the logs.

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I’ve been plagued by this and it seems to be triggered by VLC mostly for me but I was using discord too today… so who knows :man_shrugging:

I hope 460.56 this gets fast tracked into stable !