I got this one again over the weekend: aic94xx: max_scbs:512, max_ddbs:128 aic94xx: setting phy0 addr to 50000d100001cae0 aic94xx: setting phy1 addr to 50000d100001cae0 aic94xx: setting phy2 addr to 50000d100001cae0 aic94xx: setting phy3 addr to 50000d100001cae0 aic94xx: setting phy4 addr to 50000d100001cae0 aic94xx: setting phy5 addr to 50000d100001cae0 aic94xx: setting phy6 addr to 50000d100001cae0 aic94xx: setting phy7 addr to 50000d100001cae0 aic94xx: num_edbs:21 aic94xx: num_escbs:3 aic94xx: using sequencer Razor_10a1 aic94xx: downloading CSEQ... aic94xx: dma-ing 8192 bytes aic94xx: verified 8192 bytes, passed aic94xx: downloading LSEQs... aic94xx: dma-ing 14336 bytes aic94xx: LSEQ0 verified 14336 bytes, passed aic94xx: LSEQ1 verified 14336 bytes, passed aic94xx: LSEQ2 verified 14336 bytes, passed aic94xx: LSEQ3 verified 14336 bytes, passed aic94xx: LSEQ4 verified 14336 bytes, passed aic94xx: LSEQ5 verified 14336 bytes, passed aic94xx: LSEQ6 verified 14336 bytes, passed aic94xx: LSEQ7 verified 14336 bytes, passed aic94xx: max_scbs:446 aic94xx: first_scb_site_no:0x20 aic94xx: last_scb_site_no:0x1fe aic94xx: First SCB dma_handle: 0x1ed97000 aic94xx: device 0000:03:03.0: SAS addr 50000d100001cae0, PCBA SN , 8 phys, 8 enabled phys, flash present, BIOS not present0 aic94xx: posting 3 escbs aic94xx: escbs posted aic94xx: posting 8 control phy scbs aic94xx: enabled phys aic94xx: control_phy_tasklet_complete: phy0, lrate:0x9, proto:0xe aic94xx: control_phy_tasklet_complete: phy1, lrate:0x9, proto:0xe aic94xx: escb_tasklet_complete: phy0: BYTES_DMAED aic94xx: SAS proto IDENTIFY: aic94xx: 00: 20 00 00 02 aic94xx: 04: 00 00 00 00 aic94xx: 08: 00 00 00 00 aic94xx: 0c: 50 06 05 b0 aic94xx: 10: 00 00 11 10 aic94xx: 14: 07 00 00 00 aic94xx: 18: 00 00 00 00 aic94xx: escb_tasklet_complete: phy1: PRIMITIVE_RECVD sas: phy0 added to port0, phy_mask:0x1 aic94xx: phy1: BROADCAST change received:256 aic94xx: control_phy_tasklet_complete: phy2, lrate:0x9, proto:0xe sas: broadcast received: 9 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000214 printing eip: f88f14cd *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: aic94xx scsi_transport_sas_domain scsi_transport_sas uhci_hcd usbcore tg3 ext3 jbd mbcache sr_mod cdrom sd_mod aic79xx scsi_transport_spi scsi_mod CPU: 1 EIP: 0060:[<f88f14cd>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010297 (2.6.18-rc1 #10) EIP is at sas_discover_event+0x1d/0xa0 [scsi_transport_sas_domain] eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c011de75 edx: 00000000 esi: 00000001 edi: 00000044 ebp: f7019f18 esp: f7019efc ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process scsi_wq_2 (pid: 2256, ti=f7018000 task=f7052aa0 task.ti=f7018000) Stack: de7c0c04 00000009 f7019f18 c011e02b 00000001 de7c0c04 00000009 f7019f34 f88f0e83 00000000 00000001 de7c0a04 de7c0a08 dff71118 f7019f68 c012ef4c de7c09d4 dff71160 00000001 dff71158 dff711a0 00000286 f88f0e10 de7c09d4 Call Trace: [<f88f0e83>] sas_porte_broadcast_rcvd+0x73/0x80 [scsi_transport_sas_domain] [<c012ef4c>] run_workqueue+0x7c/0x100 [<c012f1a5>] worker_thread+0x115/0x150 [<c0132a9d>] kthread+0xfd/0x110 [<c0100ea5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10 Code: 5e 5f 5d c3 8d 76 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 83 ec 1c 89 75 f8 8b 75 0c 89 5d f4 8b 5d 08 89 7d fc 83 fe 02 8d 7b 44 77 74 <8b> 83 14 02 00 00 8b 40 6c 89 45 ec 8d 04 76 c1 e0 04 8d 44 03 EIP: [<f88f14cd>] sas_discover_event+0x1d/0xa0 [scsi_transport_sas_domain] SS:ESP 0068:f7019efc <5>aic94xx: escb_tasklet_complete: phy2: PRIMITIVE_RECVD I think what happens is that the broadcast comes in before the aic94xx has allocated a port to the phy (so phy->port is null in sas_porte_boradcast_rcvd). I'll investigate fixing this, but I might not have time for the rest of this week if someone else wants to take a look. James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html