While running LTP tests (specifically mlock201) against next-20200914 tree on a POWER9 LPAR results in following crash. BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000000 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000454248 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries Modules linked in: af_packet(E) nft_ct(E) nf_conntrack(E) nf_defrag_ipv6(E) nf_defrag_ipv4(E) libcrc32c(E) ip6_tables(E) nft_compat(E) ip_set(E) rfkill(E) nf_tables(E) nfnetlink(E) vmx_crypto(E) uio_pdrv_genirq(E) gf128mul(E) uio(E) rtc_generic(E) crct10dif_vpmsum(E) sch_fq_codel(E) ip_tables(E) x_tables(E) ext4(E) crc16(E) mbcache(E) jbd2(E) sd_mod(E) t10_pi(E) sg(E) ibmvscsi(E) scsi_transport_srp(E) scsi_mod(E) ibmveth(E) crc32c_vpmsum(E) dm_mirror(E) dm_region_hash(E) dm_log(E) dm_mod(E) autofs4(E) CPU: 11 PID: 26435 Comm: mlock201 Tainted: G E 5.9.0-rc5-next-20200914-281.gf529200-default #1 NIP: c000000000454248 LR: c000000000445a74 CTR: c000000000413150 REGS: c0000008e645b770 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G E (5.9.0-rc5-next-20200914-281.gf529200-default) MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28002482 XER: 20040000 CFAR: c00000000000fbb0 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0 GPR00: c000000000445a74 c0000008e645ba00 c0000000017c4500 0000000000000000 GPR04: 0000000000000001 c0000008ea109e98 c0000008f0c40000 0000000000000000 GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000003 GPR12: c000000000413150 c00000001ec70200 0000000000000000 c000000001502038 GPR16: 00007fff9c61ffff 00007fff9c61ffff 00007fff9c61ffff c000000000cb02f8 GPR20: 00007fff9c5c0000 00007fff9c620000 c0000008e645bcd8 c0000008f0c40000 GPR24: c00c0000023c0d00 fffffffffffffe7f 0000000000000000 c0000008f0c40000 GPR28: c0000008ea109e98 0000000000000001 c0000008ea9288a8 0000000000000000 NIP [c000000000454248] PageHuge+0x8/0x60 LR [c000000000445a74] find_get_incore_page+0x114/0x160 Call Trace: [c0000008e645ba00] [c000000000445994] find_get_incore_page+0x34/0x160 (unreliable) [c0000008e645ba40] [c000000000412e54] mincore_page+0x24/0x160 [c0000008e645ba70] [c000000000413020] __mincore_unmapped_range+0x90/0x160 [c0000008e645bac0] [c000000000413680] mincore_pte_range+0x530/0x5d0 [c0000008e645bb40] [c000000000422a38] walk_pgd_range+0x4e8/0xae0 [c0000008e645bc30] [c0000000004230c4] __walk_page_range+0x94/0x250 [c0000008e645bcb0] [c0000000004233d8] walk_page_range+0x158/0x1e0 [c0000008e645bd40] [c00000000041386c] sys_mincore+0x14c/0x370 [c0000008e645bdc0] [c000000000033eb8] system_call_exception+0xf8/0x200 [c0000008e645be20] [c00000000000d140] system_call_common+0xf0/0x27c Instruction dump: e8410018 38210020 e8010010 7c0803a6 4e800020 60000000 3d400001 7d435378 4e800020 60000000 7c0802a6 60000000 <e9230000> 75290001 40820010 e9230008 ---[ end trace 357eb14a3b22eab2 ]— The function find_get_incore_page() was introduced with 3fcbe4eb49a0406e6202e8c8c3560f30965a8e79 mm: factor find_get_incore_page out of mincore_page Thanks -Sachin