I pulled from Linus Dec16 and didn't have problems. This is a pull from Dec17, plus some of my own patches which I'd be surprised to learn were related. I have an NFS mount in my fstab, I assume this is that being mounted on boot. I'll start a bisect if needed, but maybe someone will know what they broke instantly.... [ 16.140640] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018 [ 16.141381] IP: [] commit_tree+0x6f/0x100 [ 16.141381] PGD 0 [ 16.141381] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 16.141381] last sysfs file: /sys/module/lockd/initstate [ 16.141381] CPU 1 [ 16.141381] Pid: 2413, comm: mount.nfs Not tainted 2.6.32-fanotify #32 / [ 16.141381] RIP: 0010:[] [] commit_tree+0x6f/0x100 [ 16.141381] RSP: 0018:ffff88007dfb1798 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 16.141381] RAX: ffff88007dfb1798 RBX: ffff88007dfb1798 RCX: ffff8800775962e8 [ 16.141381] RDX: ffff88007dfb1730 RSI: ffff8800775962e8 RDI: ffff88007dfb1798 [ 16.141381] RBP: ffff88007dfb17c8 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 16.141381] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 16.141381] R13: ffff880077596280 R14: ffff88007e6e6280 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 16.141381] FS: 00007f05bdf0b700(0000) GS:ffff880004c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 16.141381] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 16.141381] CR2: 0000000000000018 CR3: 00000000777d3000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 16.141381] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 16.141381] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 16.141381] Process mount.nfs (pid: 2413, threadinfo ffff88007dfb0000, task ffff88007dc62430) [ 16.141381] Stack: [ 16.141381] ffff8800775962e8 ffff8800775962e8 ffff880077596280 ffff88007e6e6280 [ 16.141381] <0> ffff88007dfb1be8 ffff88007dfb17e8 ffff88007dfb1828 ffffffff8114e13b [ 16.141381] <0> 0000000000000000 ffff88007c307710 ffff88007dfb17e8 ffff88007dfb17e8 [ 16.141381] Call Trace: [ 16.141381] [] attach_recursive_mnt+0x16b/0x170 [ 16.141381] [] graft_tree+0xeb/0x120 [ 16.141381] [] ? do_add_mount+0x34/0x140 [ 16.141381] [] do_add_mount+0xf4/0x140 [ 16.141381] [] nfs_follow_mountpoint+0x14a/0x490 [nfs] [ 16.141381] [] ? kvm_clock_read+0x3e/0x70 [ 16.141381] [] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10 [ 16.141381] [] ? selinux_inode_follow_link+0x83/0xb0 [ 16.141381] [] do_follow_link+0x161/0x300 [ 16.141381] [] link_path_walk+0x3bb/0x670 [ 16.141381] [] path_walk+0x5c/0xc0 [ 16.141381] [] vfs_path_lookup+0x6a/0xe0 [ 16.141381] [] nfs_follow_remote_path+0x35/0x110 [nfs] [ 16.141381] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x120/0x1a0 [ 16.141381] [] ? nfs_do_root_mount+0x85/0xa0 [nfs] [ 16.141381] [] ? nfs_do_root_mount+0x85/0xa0 [nfs] [ 16.141381] [] nfs4_try_mount+0x77/0xd0 [nfs] [ 16.141381] [] nfs_get_sb+0x836/0xd10 [nfs] [ 16.141381] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [ 16.141381] [] ? alloc_vfsmnt+0xc6/0x1a0 [ 16.141381] [] ? __alloc_percpu+0xb/0x10 [ 16.141381] [] vfs_kern_mount+0x77/0x180 [ 16.141381] [] do_kern_mount+0x4e/0x110 [ 16.141381] [] do_mount+0x51d/0x7e0 [ 16.141381] [] ? copy_mount_options+0x10a/0x180 [ 16.141381] [] sys_mount+0x8a/0xd0 [ 16.141381] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 16.141381] Code: 55 d0 48 83 ea 68 eb 0f 4c 89 a2 c0 00 00 00 48 8b 52 68 48 83 ea 68 48 8b 42 68 0f 18 08 48 8d 42 68 48 39 d8 75 e1 48 8b 4d d0 <49> 8b 74 24 18 48 39 c1 74 15 48 8b 16 48 8b 45 d8 48 89 0e 48