v4l2-compliance test running on linux stable 4.9 reported kernel bug. The crash is pointing to kernel module "vivid.ko" which was loaded by test case. ( modprobe vivid.ko) Test passes on 4.4, 4.14, 4.19 and 5.0. steps to reproduce: # boot 4.9 kernel on x86_64 / Juno / hikey / device # install v4l-utils package # modprobe vivid.ko no_error_inj=1 # v4l2-compliance -v -d /dev/video0 # you will get BUG: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference arm64 juno-r2 test output log, ---------------------------------------- INFO: Running v4l2-compliance device test... [ 48.574093] vivid-000: ================= START STATUS ================= [ 48.580866] vivid-000: Test Pattern: 75% Colorbar ... [ 48.730569] tpg RGB range: 0/2 [ 48.733592] vivid-000: ================== END STATUS ================== [ 48.753649] BUG: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000716 [ 48.761689] pgd = ffff80094d113000 [ 48.765097] [00000716] *pgd=00000009f4300003, *pud=00000009f513c003, *pmd=0000000000000000 [ 48.773666] Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 48.779186] Modules linked in: vivid videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops v4l2_tpg videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_core fuse [ 48.789574] CPU: 5 PID: 2278 Comm: v4l2-compliance Not tainted 4.9.169-rc1 #1 [ 48.796637] Hardware name: ARM Juno development board (r2) (DT) [ 48.802496] task: ffff8009741e5800 task.stack: ffff80096ec9c000 [ 48.808405] PC is at vidioc_g_edid+0xb8/0x150 [vivid] [ 48.813445] LR is at vidioc_g_edid+0xb4/0x150 [vivid] [ 48.818444] pc : [<ffff000000bffc80>] lr : [<ffff000000bffc7c>] pstate: 40000145 [ 48.825764] sp : ffff80096ec9fbc0 [ 48.829043] x29: ffff80096ec9fbc0 x28: 0000000000000000 [ 48.834311] x27: ffff800972fd0590 x26: 0000000000000028 [ 48.839580] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff000009289eb0 [ 48.844849] x23: ffff80096ec9fd10 x22: ffff80096ec9fd10 [ 48.850118] x21: 0000000000000000 x20: ffff800972fd0000 [ 48.855387] x19: ffff80096ec9fd10 x18: 0000ffffc63f1d4f [ 48.860656] x17: 0000ffffb0186910 x16: ffff0000082c9840 [ 48.865924] x15: 000000000000000a x14: 2700000000000000 [ 48.871193] x13: 0000001c0000321c x12: c000358040201cd0 [ 48.876461] x11: 5180001d1a1a0000 x10: 321cc00035203040 [ 48.881730] x9 : 1f3870a080361a1e x8 : 0000321cc0003520 [ 48.886998] x7 : 30803e70f0a000d0 x6 : ffff800972dbdc00 [ 48.892267] x5 : ffff800972ca0000 x4 : 0000000000000000 [ 48.897534] x3 : 0000000000000002 x2 : ffffffffffffffc0 [ 48.902803] x1 : ffff00000ba83100 x0 : ffff800972dbdb00 [ 48.908069] [ 48.909543] Process v4l2-compliance (pid: 2278, stack limit = 0xffff80096ec9c020) [ 48.916951] Stack: (0xffff80096ec9fbc0 to 0xffff80096eca0000) [ 48.922642] fbc0: ffff80096ec9fbf0 ffff000008900194 00000000c0285628 ffff80097537aa80 ... ... ... [ 49.272633] [<ffff000000bffc80>] vidioc_g_edid+0xb8/0x150 [vivid] [ 49.278672] [<ffff000008900194>] __video_do_ioctl+0x204/0x2f8 [ 49.284362] [<ffff0000088ff990>] video_usercopy+0x230/0x7e0 [ 49.289879] [<ffff0000088fff7c>] video_ioctl2+0x3c/0x50 [ 49.295052] [<ffff0000088fa394>] v4l2_ioctl+0x8c/0x128 [ 49.300143] [<ffff0000082c9060>] do_vfs_ioctl+0xb0/0x890 [ 49.305404] [<ffff0000082c98cc>] SyS_ioctl+0x8c/0xa8 [ 49.310321] [<ffff0000080841dc>] __sys_trace_return+0x0/0x4 [ 49.315841] Code: 53196042 f9401260 95e37502 f9401260 (794e2ea2) [ 49.321877] ---[ end trace 2f24332f5b488208 ]--- Full test log, https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-4.9-oe/build/v4.9.168-78-g6ecae2ce7b5a/testrun/680319/log Linux kernel version, Linux version 4.9.169-rc1 (oe-user@oe-host) (gcc version 7.3.0 (GCC) ) #1 SMP Tue Apr 16 18:34:31 UTC 2019 Code snippet: long video_ioctl2(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { return video_usercopy(file, cmd, arg, __video_do_ioctl); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(video_ioctl2); Test logs from each device, Juno-r2: arm64 https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/680319#L1389 X86_64: https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/680361#L1143 Hikey: arm64 https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/680287#L1564 BeagleBoard-x15: arm32 https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/680377#L1540 Best regards Naresh Kamboju