I am seeing a panic on the latest git trees on my ia64 servers with qlogic cards installed. The latest this was known to work OK was v2.6.23-rc1. I am currently working on a git bisect to narrow down what introduced this but due to other unrelated problems that is not going smoothly. Let me know if there is other info I can provide that would be helpful. Here is what I do know: Hardware info: I am seeing this on multiple HP ia64 servers (don't know if this is ia64 specific since that is all I have). Here is what I see as the card is seen on a good boot (I don't get this far on the current kernels): qla2xxx 0000:80:02.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 68, iobase 0xc0000000c0041000 qla2xxx 0000:80:02.0: Configuring PCI space... qla2xxx 0000:80:02.0: Configure NVRAM parameters... qla2xxx 0000:80:02.0: Verifying loaded RISC code... qla2xxx 0000:80:02.0: Allocated (412 KB) for firmware dump... scsi2 : qla2xxx qla2xxx 0000:80:02.0: QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.02.00-k2 QLogic HP A6826-60001 - ISP2312: PCI-X (66 MHz) @ 0000:80:02.0 hdma+, host#=2, fw=3.03.20 IPX Appears the panic happens at drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_sup.c:668 663 664 /* Word reads to NVRAM via registers. */ 665 wptr = (uint16_t *)buf; 666 qla2x00_lock_nvram_access(ha); 667 for (i = 0; i < bytes >> 1; i++, naddr++) 668 wptr[i] = cpu_to_le16(qla2x00_get_nvram_word(ha, 669 naddr)); 670 qla2x00_unlock_nvram_access(ha); 671 672 return buf; Here is the full stack trace (note, this is from loading the module, not from a static build but appears to be the same). Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference (address 0000000000000000) ip is at qla2x00_read_nvram_data+0x61/0xe0 [qla2xxx] Call Trace: [<a000000100015260>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0 sp=e0000040f34a7770 bsp=e0000040f34a14b0 [<a000000100015b60>] show_regs+0x840/0x880 sp=e0000040f34a7940 bsp=e0000040f34a1458 [<a000000100038d20>] die+0x1a0/0x280 sp=e0000040f34a7940 bsp=e0000040f34a1410 [<a00000010066c570>] ia64_do_page_fault+0x8f0/0xa20 sp=e0000040f34a7940 bsp=e0000040f34a13b0 [<a00000010000ba00>] ia64_leave_kernel+0x0/0x270 sp=e0000040f34a79d0 bsp=e0000040f34a13b0 [<a00000021b7778a0>] qla2x00_read_nvram_data+0x60/0xe0 [qla2xxx] sp=e0000040f34a7ba0 bsp=e0000040f34a1358 [<a00000021b74b310>] qla2x00_nvram_config+0x190/0x14e0 [qla2xxx] sp=e0000040f34a7ba0 bsp=e0000040f34a12f8 [<a00000021b748070>] qla2x00_initialize_adapter+0x350/0x5a0 [qla2xxx] sp=e0000040f34a7ba0 bsp=e0000040f34a12c0 [<a00000021b73d3c0>] qla2x00_probe_one+0x1620/0x1e60 [qla2xxx] sp=e0000040f34a7bc0 bsp=e0000040f34a1228 [<a00000010030fd20>] pci_device_probe+0x260/0x3a0 sp=e0000040f34a7d10 bsp=e0000040f34a11d8 [<a000000100424e90>] driver_probe_device+0x250/0x380 sp=e0000040f34a7de0 bsp=e0000040f34a1198 [<a0000001004252a0>] __driver_attach+0x100/0x1a0 sp=e0000040f34a7de0 bsp=e0000040f34a1168 [<a000000100423260>] bus_for_each_dev+0x80/0x100 sp=e0000040f34a7de0 bsp=e0000040f34a1130 [<a000000100424a60>] driver_attach+0x40/0x60 sp=e0000040f34a7e00 bsp=e0000040f34a1110 [<a000000100423a50>] bus_add_driver+0xf0/0x3c0 sp=e0000040f34a7e00 bsp=e0000040f34a10d0 [<a000000100425800>] driver_register+0x140/0x160 sp=e0000040f34a7e00 bsp=e0000040f34a10b0 [<a0000001003101f0>] __pci_register_driver+0xd0/0x160 sp=e0000040f34a7e00 bsp=e0000040f34a1078 [<a00000021b304260>] qla2x00_module_init+0x260/0x400 [qla2xxx] sp=e0000040f34a7e00 bsp=e0000040f34a1040 [<a0000001000e5f90>] sys_init_module+0x2db0/0x3160 sp=e0000040f34a7e00 bsp=e0000040f34a0ec0 [<a00000010000b860>] ia64_ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x20 sp=e0000040f34a7e30 bsp=e0000040f34a0ec0 [<a000000000010620>] __kernel_syscall_via_break+0x0/0x20 sp=e0000040f34a8000 bsp=e0000040f34a0ec0 - To unsubscribe from this list: 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