Hi, I can hit the following null pointer dereference pretty reliably when testing NFSv4.1 and NFSv4.2, by running xfstests generic/013. NFSv4.0 and v3 seem have no problem. Both NFS server and client are the same Linux box running 4.9-rc1 kernel. And I bisected to this commit commit 68778945e46f143ed7974b427a8065f69a4ce944 Author: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Sep 15 10:55:37 2016 -0400 SUNRPC: Separate buffer pointers for RPC Call and Reply messages I did further confirmation. With this commit as HEAD, I can reproduce the crash quite easily, then I reverted commit and the crash was gone. Thanks, Eryu [ 48.049827] FS-Cache: Loaded [ 48.198327] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching [ 48.269872] Key type dns_resolver registered [ 48.406405] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type [ 48.406861] Key type id_resolver registered [ 48.407236] Key type id_legacy registered [ 49.167498] run fstests generic/013 at 2016-10-22 21:21:40 [ 74.931485] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [ 74.932427] IP: [<ffffffff8135ce99>] memcpy_orig+0x29/0x110 [ 74.932427] PGD 212ca2067 PUD 212ca3067 PMD 0 [ 74.932427] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP [ 74.932427] Modules linked in: rpcsec_gss_krb5 nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs fscache ppdev parport_pc i2c_piix4 sg parport i2c_core virtio_balloon pcspkr acpi_cpufreq nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sd_mod ata_generic pata_acpi virtio_scsi 8139too ata_piix libata 8139cp mii virtio_pci floppy virtio_ring serio_raw virtio [ 74.940337] CPU: 1 PID: 1540 Comm: nfsd Not tainted 4.9.0-rc1 #39 [ 74.940337] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2007 [ 74.940337] task: ffff88020d7ed200 task.stack: ffff880211838000 [ 74.940337] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8135ce99>] [<ffffffff8135ce99>] memcpy_orig+0x29/0x110 [ 74.940337] RSP: 0018:ffff88021183bdd0 EFLAGS: 00010206 [ 74.940337] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88020d7fa000 RCX: 000000f400000000 [ 74.940337] RDX: 0000000000000014 RSI: ffff880212927020 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 74.940337] RBP: ffff88021183be30 R08: 01000000ef896996 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 74.940337] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880211704ca8 [ 74.940337] R13: ffff88021473f000 R14: 00000000ef896996 R15: ffff880211704800 [ 74.940337] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88021fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 74.940337] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 74.940337] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000212ca1000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 74.940337] Stack: [ 74.940337] ffffffffa01ea087 ffffffff63400001 ffff880215145e00 ffff880211bacd00 [ 74.940337] ffff88021473f2b8 0000000000000004 00000000d0679d67 ffff880211bacd00 [ 74.940337] ffff88020d7fa000 ffff88021473f000 0000000000000000 ffff88020d7faa30 [ 74.940337] Call Trace: [ 74.940337] [<ffffffffa01ea087>] ? svc_tcp_recvfrom+0x5a7/0x790 [sunrpc] [ 74.940337] [<ffffffffa01f84d8>] svc_recv+0xad8/0xbd0 [sunrpc] [ 74.940337] [<ffffffffa0262d5e>] nfsd+0xde/0x160 [nfsd] [ 74.940337] [<ffffffffa0262c80>] ? nfsd_destroy+0x60/0x60 [nfsd] [ 74.940337] [<ffffffff810a9418>] kthread+0xd8/0xf0 [ 74.940337] [<ffffffff816dbdbf>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40 [ 74.940337] [<ffffffff810a9340>] ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60 [ 74.940337] Code: 00 00 48 89 f8 48 83 fa 20 72 7e 40 38 fe 7c 35 48 83 ea 20 48 83 ea 20 4c 8b 06 4c 8b 4e 08 4c 8b 56 10 4c 8b 5e 18 48 8d 76 20 <4c> 89 07 4c 89 4f 08 4c 89 57 10 4c 89 5f 18 48 8d 7f 20 73 d4 [ 74.940337] RIP [<ffffffff8135ce99>] memcpy_orig+0x29/0x110 [ 74.940337] RSP <ffff88021183bdd0> [ 74.940337] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 74.940337] ---[ end trace 695c5805bd21c5dc ]--- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html