Bizarre freeze (and kernel bug?)

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Hello!

I need some help with figuring out what went wrong with my computer since gnome keeps freezing and I have to reset it by holding the power button.

The problem occurs when I try to interact with a file that was created shortly before I interact with it (like playing an audio file or a video). It first happened after I tried to listen to a recording made with shortwave and then again twice when I tried to send a video to someone.

The issue is noticeable because gnome becomes unresponsive, keyboard inputs (such as ctrl + alt + f2) do not do anything and I have to reboot the computer

Checking journalctl -eb -1, the last error message says this:

kernel: list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffff9cec9dbbef30), but was ffff9cddc09b5a18. (next=ffffdb050990d248).

being followed by

Mär 01 15:54:53 erik-fedora kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Mär 01 15:54:53 erik-fedora kernel: kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:29!
Mär 01 15:54:53 erik-fedora kernel: Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#3] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
Mär 01 15:54:53 erik-fedora kernel: CPU: 7 UID: 1000 PID: 8341 Comm: fuse mainloop Tainted: G    B D    OE      6.13.4-200.fc41.x86_64 #1
Mär 01 15:54:53 erik-fedora kernel: Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE, [D]=DIE, [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Mär 01 15:54:53 erik-fedora kernel: Hardware name: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7D74/MPG B650 CARBON WIFI (MS-7D74), BIOS 1.B0 02/06/2024

Additionally, preceding this error, there are a bunch of similar messages like list_del corruption or BUG: Bad page state in process ThreadPoolForeg pfn:29c852

Searching for this error only leads me to old kernel bug pages and issues on the nvidia developer forums (which is actually quite similar to what I am experiencing)

Some important system information:
Fedora version: 41
Kernel version: 6.13.4-200.fc41.x86_64
Nvidia driver version: 570.86.16
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 3080
Gnome version: 47 w/ Wayland

I would appreciate any help or advice!

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It may be a good idea to update your motherboard’s firmware to the latest version.
It appears there were about 10 updates after your current version, some include improvements to Nvidia support as well:

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-B650-CARBON-WIFI/support

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This user is hitting the same issue, so at least you’re not alone. I left a comment there encouraging a kernel bug report.

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There is a known bug with the 6.13.4 kernel and using some flatpak or fuse software.
If this is your case, the updated kernel 6.13.5 with the fix is in the updates-testing repo and could be installed from the command line with sudo dnf update kernel* --enablerepo=updates-testing

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this seems likely, I will try it out tomorrow. Thank you!

Edit: Looks like the kernel update for 6.13.5 just hit stable repos, might as well install it that way

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:+1: I see it myself now.
Yes install it that way instead of from testing.

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I just updated to kernel 6.13.5 from 6.13.4 and the memory leak vanished. Lenovo desktop. Had a leak with either the kernel or the network stack or Fedora … Half froze sometimes when browsing the web. Hope ever the leaks are stopped forever by the kernel fixes.