Seen at boot. Dell Latitude E6530, A20 bios.
Only obvious commit in 'git log' is:
commit 549b4930f057658dc50d8010e66219233119a4d8
Author: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 1 14:25:31 2017 -0500
platform/x86: dell-smbios: Introduce dispatcher for SMM calls
Looks like it managed to get to dell_set_arguments() before kzalloc for
static struct calling_interface_buffer *buffer;
[ 26.074812] input: Dell WMI hotkeys as /devices/platform/PNP0C14:00/wmi_bus/wmi_bus-PNP0C14:00/9DBB5994-A997-11DA-B012-B622A1EF5492/input/input16
[ 26.229439] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
[ 26.231880] IP: dell_set_arguments+0x1c/0x80 [dell_laptop]
[ 26.234348] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 26.236658] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 26.238866] Modules linked in: dell_laptop(+) crct10dif_pclmul dell_smbios_smm crc32_pclmul cordic brcmutil crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel dell_smbios_wmi dell_wmi dell_smbios cryptd dell_smm_hwmon dell_wmi_descriptor bcma mei_wdt dell_smo8800 dell_rbtn sch_fq tcp_bbr
[ 26.243453] CPU: 1 PID: 794 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.14.0-next-20171114-dirty #541
[ 26.245685] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E6530/07Y85M, BIOS A20 05/08/2017
[ 26.247955] task: ffff976914040cc0 task.stack: ffffb027c023c000
[ 26.250047] RIP: 0010:dell_set_arguments+0x1c/0x80 [dell_laptop]
[ 26.252190] RSP: 0018:ffffb027c023fc10 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 26.254318] RAX: 8373860b0f09d330 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 26.254320] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 26.254321] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 26.254323] R10: ffffb027c023faf8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 26.254326] R13: ffffffffbe063000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
[ 26.254328] FS: 00007fc78bf24940(0000) GS:ffff97691d000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 26.254329] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 26.254331] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000004171fc005 CR4: 00000000001606e0
[ 26.254332] Call Trace:
[ 26.254343] dell_init+0x1fb/0x1f8c [dell_laptop]
[ 26.254352] ? dmi_matched+0x74/0x74 [dell_laptop]
[ 26.254355] do_one_initcall+0x5a/0x22d
[ 26.254361] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x34d/0x500
[ 26.254369] do_init_module+0xb4/0x2ec
[ 26.254374] load_module+0x1709/0x24e0
[ 26.254385] SYSC_init_module+0x170/0x1a0
[ 26.254396] do_syscall_64+0xa2/0xd84
[ 26.254406] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
[ 26.254409] RIP: 0033:0x7fc78b85ad3a
[ 26.254411] RSP: 002b:00007ffc20435d48 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000af
[ 26.254413] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000559df485d2f0 RCX: 00007fc78b85ad3a
[ 26.254415] RDX: 00007fc78b11bda5 RSI: 0000000000020138 RDI: 0000559df5116f40
[ 26.254416] RBP: 00007fc78b11bda5 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007ffc20433d18
[ 26.254418] R10: 0000000000000005 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000559df5116f40
[ 26.254419] R13: 0000559df4820460 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000559df2f8323c
[ 26.254428] Code: ff 0f 1f 40 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 41 89 fc 55 89 f5 53 48 83 ec 08 48 8b 1d 07 70 00 00 48 85 db <48> c7 03 00 00 00 00 48 c7 43 08 00 00 00 00 48 c7 43 10 00 00
[ 26.254488] RIP: dell_set_arguments+0x1c/0x80 [dell_laptop] RSP: ffffb027c023fc10
[ 26.254489] CR2: 0000000000000000
[ 26.256149] ---[ end trace 241d71e836ee357e ]---
