Hi, When I boot a VM, the following kernel oops is triggerd: [ 4.850206] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000006a0 [ 4.851131] IP: sync_page_io+0x38/0x180 [ 4.851445] PGD 2759bc067 [ 4.851446] P4D 2759bc067 [ 4.851621] PUD 277838067 [ 4.851835] PMD 0 [ 4.852152] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 4.852494] Dumping ftrace buffer: [ 4.852758] (ftrace buffer empty) [ 4.853062] Modules linked in: nd_pmem psmouse serio_raw ahci libahci floppy nvme nvme_core ib_iser rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm ib_core configfs iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi null_blk configs autofs4 [ 4.855190] CPU: 3 PID: 661 Comm: mdadm Not tainted 4.12.0-rc6.quiesce-v3-next-20170623-09867-ga73468728fd8 #248 [ 4.856310] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.10.2-0-g5f4c7b1-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 [ 4.857458] task: ffffa33bf749b340 task.stack: ffffa667812e8000 [ 4.857992] RIP: 0010:sync_page_io+0x38/0x180 [ 4.858349] RSP: 0018:ffffa667812ebb18 EFLAGS: 00010297 [ 4.858804] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffd43fc9da2100 [ 4.859465] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffa33bf740d800 [ 4.860137] RBP: ffffa667812ebb50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 4.860774] R10: 0000000023386c39 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffa33bf740d800 [ 4.861817] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 4.863150] FS: 00007f0aa0304700(0000) GS:ffffa33bfac00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 4.864412] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 4.865001] CR2: 00000000000006a0 CR3: 0000000276883000 CR4: 00000000003406e0 [ 4.865663] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 4.866332] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 4.867025] Call Trace: [ 4.867178] read_disk_sb.constprop.66+0x72/0xc0 [ 4.867572] super_1_load+0xb7/0x7a0 [ 4.867897] ? blkdev_get_by_dev+0x58/0x70 [ 4.868222] ? lock_rdev+0x6c/0xb0 [ 4.868476] md_import_device+0x187/0x230 [ 4.868851] ? check_preemption_disabled+0x35/0x120 [ 4.869266] add_new_disk+0xc2/0x760 [ 4.869541] md_ioctl+0x1fc7/0x23a0 [ 4.869824] ? __might_fault+0x67/0xd0 [ 4.870109] ? autostart_arrays+0x710/0x710 [ 4.870451] blkdev_ioctl+0x5b8/0xbd0 [ 4.870750] block_ioctl+0x61/0x80 [ 4.871003] ? blkdev_fallocate+0x240/0x240 [ 4.871371] do_vfs_ioctl+0xb0/0x890 [ 4.871640] ? check_preemption_disabled+0x35/0x120 [ 4.872061] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x5/0xc2 [ 4.872463] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x1c/0x20 [ 4.872867] ? __fget_light+0x56/0xb0 [ 4.873148] ? security_file_ioctl+0x62/0x80 [ 4.873498] SyS_ioctl+0x94/0xc0 [ 4.873735] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x23/0xc2 [ 4.874121] RIP: 0033:0x7f0a9fe26687 [ 4.874391] RSP: 002b:00007ffca16ec628 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 [ 4.875105] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffca16efa6b RCX: 00007f0a9fe26687 [ 4.875779] RDX: 00007ffca16eca38 RSI: 0000000040140921 RDI: 0000000000000004 [ 4.876544] RBP: ffffffffa35cbbcc R08: 0000000000200000 R09: 0000000000000014 [ 4.877253] R10: 0000000000000361 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffffa667812ebf88 [ 4.877968] R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 00007ffca16ec8cd R15: 0000000001db35b0 [ 4.878657] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x1c/0x20 [ 4.879341] Code: 41 55 41 54 49 89 fc 53 49 89 f5 45 89 ce 48 83 ec 10 89 55 d0 48 89 4d c8 44 89 45 d4 44 8b 7d 10 e8 7d 63 91 ff 49 8b 44 24 18 <48> 8b 98 a0 06 00 00 48 85 db 0f 84 12 01 00 00 e8 63 63 91 ff [ 4.885691] RIP: sync_page_io+0x38/0x180 RSP: ffffa667812ebb18 [ 4.886208] CR2: 00000000000006a0 [ 4.886441] ---[ end trace 5e7fbbf3076a4aab ]--- Thanks, Ming -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html