Hi Xiubo, I was wondering if you ever seen the BUG below. I've debugged it a bit and the issue seems occurs here, while doing the SetPageUptodate(): if (ret <= 0) left = 0; else if (off + ret > i_size) left = i_size - off; else left = ret; while (left > 0) { size_t plen, copied; plen = min_t(size_t, left, PAGE_SIZE - page_off); SetPageUptodate(pages[idx]); copied = copy_page_to_iter(pages[idx++], page_off, plen, to); off += copied; left -= copied; page_off = 0; if (copied < plen) { ret = -EFAULT; break; } } So, the issue is that we have idx > num_pages. And I'm almost sure that's because of i_size being '0' and 'left' ending up with a huge value. But haven't managed to figure out yet why i_size is '0'. (Note: I'll be offline next week, but I'll continue looking into this the week after. But I figured I should report the bug anyway, in case you've seen something similar.) Cheers, -- Luís BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000002 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page PGD 1032b4067 P4D 1032b4067 PUD 1032ce067 PMD 0 Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 427 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc1+ #14 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-3-gd478f380-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__ceph_sync_read+0x4fd/0xa60 Code: 31 f6 4d 89 e7 4d 85 ff 0f 84 ed 03 00 00 ba 00 10 00 00 49 63 c6 48 29 f2 48 8d 04 c3 4c 39 fa 48 8b 08 49 0f 47 d7 49 89 d4 <f0> 80 09 08 48 8b 38 48 8b 4d b8 41 836 RSP: 0018:ffffc900008dfcb0 EFLAGS: 00010207 RAX: ffff888101858000 RBX: ffff888101856000 RCX: 0000000000000002 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000282c61c0 RBP: ffffc900008dfd80 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000012c00 R12: 0000000000001000 R13: 0000000000421000 R14: 0000000000000400 R15: ffffffffffbdf000 FS: 00007f2eccd69040(0000) GS:ffff88813bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000002 CR3: 0000000103e0e000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die+0x23/0x60 ? page_fault_oops+0x158/0x450 ? __ceph_sync_read+0x4fd/0xa60 ? search_module_extables+0x4e/0x70 ? exc_page_fault+0x2ab/0x880 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 ? __ceph_sync_read+0x4fd/0xa60 ceph_read_iter+0x3eb/0x8f0 ? rcu_core+0x997/0xa60 ? lock_release+0x148/0x2b0 ? vfs_read+0x244/0x310 vfs_read+0x244/0x310 ksys_read+0x6d/0xf0 do_syscall_64+0x71/0x140 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 RIP: 0033:0x7f2ecce6209d Code: 31 c0 e9 c6 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 66 55 0a 00 e8 89 fe 01 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 80 3d 41 25 0e 00 00 74 17 31 c0 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 5b c3 66 2e 0f 1fc RSP: 002b:00007ffcdaa10578 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000a840d8 RCX: 00007f2ecce6209d RDX: 0000000000400000 RSI: 0000000027ec61c0 RDI: 0000000000000004 RBP: 00007f2eccd68fc0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000400000 R13: 0000000027ec61c0 R14: 0000000000000004 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK> Modules linked in: CR2: 0000000000000002 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- RIP: 0010:__ceph_sync_read+0x4fd/0xa60 Code: 31 f6 4d 89 e7 4d 85 ff 0f 84 ed 03 00 00 ba 00 10 00 00 49 63 c6 48 29 f2 48 8d 04 c3 4c 39 fa 48 8b 08 49 0f 47 d7 49 89 d4 <f0> 80 09 08 48 8b 38 48 8b 4d b8 41 836 RSP: 0018:ffffc900008dfcb0 EFLAGS: 00010207 RAX: ffff888101858000 RBX: ffff888101856000 RCX: 0000000000000002 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000282c61c0 RBP: ffffc900008dfd80 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000012c00 R12: 0000000000001000 R13: 0000000000421000 R14: 0000000000000400 R15: ffffffffffbdf000 FS: 00007f2eccd69040(0000) GS:ffff88813bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fac71216a40 CR3: 0000000103e0e000 CR4: 00000000000006b0