I'm experiencing a number of load_policy errors on a RHEL 6.2 policy development box when using semodule -i
load_policy: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0 Pid: 4054, comm: load_policy Not tainted 2.6.32-220.4.2.el6.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81123daf>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x77f/0x940 [<ffffffff8115dc62>] ? kmem_getpages+0x62/0x170 [<ffffffff8115e87a>] ? fallback_alloc+0x1ba/0x270 [<ffffffff8115e2cf>] ? cache_grow+0x2cf/0x320 [<ffffffff8115e5f9>] ? ____cache_alloc_node+0x99/0x160 [<ffffffff8122813e>] ? policydb_read+0x91e/0xef0 [<ffffffff8115f229>] ? __kmalloc+0x189/0x220 [<ffffffff8122813e>] ? policydb_read+0x91e/0xef0 [<ffffffff8122a601>] ? security_load_policy+0x141/0x410 [<ffffffff8113c354>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x1e4/0x2b0 [<ffffffff8100bc0e>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0xe/0x20 [<ffffffff81042c24>] ? __do_page_fault+0x1e4/0x480 [<ffffffff81137440>] ? __pte_alloc_kernel+0x80/0xc0 [<ffffffff81147e69>] ? vmap_page_range_noflush+0x279/0x370 [<ffffffff814f23fe>] ? do_page_fault+0x3e/0xa0 [<ffffffff814ef7b5>] ? page_fault+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffff8121e64b>] ? sel_write_load+0xdb/0x710 [<ffffffff81218d2b>] ? selinux_file_permission+0xfb/0x150 [<ffffffff8120c0d6>] ? security_file_permission+0x16/0x20 [<ffffffff81176478>] ? vfs_write+0xb8/0x1a0 [<ffffffff810d4582>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x272/0x2a0 [<ffffffff81176e81>] ? sys_write+0x51/0x90 [<ffffffff8100b0f2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
mls policy, vmware vm with 2.5GB ram, totally up to date RHEL 6.2
A couple of bugs look similar: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=590363 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=602504
Any ideas?
joe