Just a head-up, I just hit this while doing some cifs client-side testing using 3.7.1-rc1 kernel (no specific cifs patches on the top of the 3.7.1 release). Still trying to reproduce... [90701.616664] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028 [90701.625438] IP: [<ffffffff814a343e>] kernel_setsockopt+0x2e/0x60 [90701.632167] PGD fea319067 PUD 103fda4067 PMD 0 [90701.637255] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [90701.640878] Modules linked in: des_generic md4 nls_utf8 cifs dns_resolver binfmt_misc tun sg igb iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support lpc_ich pcspkr i2c_i801 i2c_core i7core_edac edac_core ioatdma dca mfd_core coretemp kvm_intel kvm crc32c_intel microcode sr_mod cdrom ata_generic sd_mod pata_acpi crc_t10dif ata_piix libata megaraid_sas dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [90701.677655] CPU 10 [90701.679808] Pid: 9627, comm: ls Tainted: G W 3.7.1+ #10 QCI QSSC-S4R/QSSC-S4R [90701.688950] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff814a343e>] [<ffffffff814a343e>] kernel_setsockopt+0x2e/0x60 [90701.698383] RSP: 0018:ffff88177b431bb8 EFLAGS: 00010206 [90701.704309] RAX: ffff88177b431fd8 RBX: 00007ffffffff000 RCX: ffff88177b431bec [90701.712271] RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: 0000000000000000 [90701.720223] RBP: ffff88177b431bc8 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000000 [90701.728185] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001 [90701.736147] R13: ffff88184ef92000 R14: 0000000000000023 R15: ffff88177b431c88 [90701.744109] FS: 00007fd56a1a47c0(0000) GS:ffff88105fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [90701.753137] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [90701.759550] CR2: 0000000000000028 CR3: 000000104f15f000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 [90701.767512] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [90701.775465] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [90701.783428] Process ls (pid: 9627, threadinfo ffff88177b430000, task ffff88185ca4cb60) [90701.792261] Stack: [90701.794505] 0000000000000023 ffff88177b431c50 ffff88177b431c38 ffffffffa014fcb1 [90701.802809] ffff88184ef921bc 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff ffff88184ef921c0 [90701.811123] ffff88177b431c08 ffffffff815ca3d9 ffff88177b431c18 ffff880857758000 [90701.819433] Call Trace: [90701.822183] [<ffffffffa014fcb1>] smb_send_rqst+0x71/0x1f0 [cifs] [90701.828991] [<ffffffff815ca3d9>] ? schedule+0x29/0x70 [90701.834736] [<ffffffffa014fe6d>] smb_sendv+0x3d/0x40 [cifs] [90701.841062] [<ffffffffa014fe96>] smb_send+0x26/0x30 [cifs] [90701.847291] [<ffffffffa015801f>] send_nt_cancel+0x6f/0xd0 [cifs] [90701.854102] [<ffffffffa015075e>] SendReceive+0x18e/0x360 [cifs] [90701.860814] [<ffffffffa0134a78>] CIFSFindFirst+0x1a8/0x3f0 [cifs] [90701.867724] [<ffffffffa013f731>] ? build_path_from_dentry+0xf1/0x260 [cifs] [90701.875601] [<ffffffffa013f731>] ? build_path_from_dentry+0xf1/0x260 [cifs] [90701.883477] [<ffffffffa01578e6>] cifs_query_dir_first+0x26/0x30 [cifs] [90701.890869] [<ffffffffa015480d>] initiate_cifs_search+0xed/0x250 [cifs] [90701.898354] [<ffffffff81195970>] ? fillonedir+0x100/0x100 [90701.904486] [<ffffffffa01554cb>] cifs_readdir+0x45b/0x8f0 [cifs] [90701.911288] [<ffffffff81195970>] ? fillonedir+0x100/0x100 [90701.917410] [<ffffffff81195970>] ? fillonedir+0x100/0x100 [90701.923533] [<ffffffff81195970>] ? fillonedir+0x100/0x100 [90701.929657] [<ffffffff81195848>] vfs_readdir+0xb8/0xe0 [90701.935490] [<ffffffff81195b9f>] sys_getdents+0x8f/0x110 [90701.941521] [<ffffffff815d3b99>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [90701.948222] Code: 66 90 55 65 48 8b 04 25 f0 c6 00 00 48 89 e5 53 48 83 ec 08 83 fe 01 48 8b 98 48 e0 ff ff 48 c7 80 48 e0 ff ff ff ff ff ff 74 22 <48> 8b 47 28 ff 50 68 65 48 8b 14 25 f0 c6 00 00 48 89 9a 48 e0 [90701.970313] RIP [<ffffffff814a343e>] kernel_setsockopt+0x2e/0x60 [90701.977125] RSP <ffff88177b431bb8> [90701.981018] CR2: 0000000000000028 [90701.984809] ---[ end trace 24bd602971110a43 ]--- CAI Qian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html